After weeks apart from each other while working from home, employees and staff from Barnes & Thornburg’s Chicago office worked together to gather funds to combat hunger.The firm’s managing partner, Michael A. Carrillo, sent out an email on April 14 encouraging donations toward the Greater Chicago Food Depository.By the next day, nearly $19,000 was raised by the team. As of early May, the drive surpassed $24,000, Carrillo said in an interview.“It was a trickle-up idea,” he said.As the COVID-19 pandemic reached Chicago …