Overview
- Organizers reported helping more than 2,000 kids from about 700 families at Saturday's event.
- Elected leaders from across the city participated, though accounts differed on whether all 50 wards or 39 were present at once.
- Gifts matched children's wish lists and ranged from laptops and bicycles to winter coats and televisions.
- Founder Larry Huggins noted the program’s evolution from an Englewood initiative into one of the country’s largest local toy drives.
- In Lombard, firefighters and volunteers continued collecting and sorting donations for Teen Parent Connections and Toy Express, with additional drop-off sites operating this week.