This is it. All the bar night fundraising, checks from grandma and last-ditch deposits build to this. The big reveal of the final total of money raised for CURE and the Evanston Community Foundation.

Block by block, the finance committee has been unveiling the totals at different benchmarks, each total growing bigger. This is the number that makes everything worth it. All the dancing, the tiny snacks, the 10-minute changing periods, the sweat, the cramps, the blisters all seem like nothing when the total comes into play.

And the total is…$708,711.