Some 700 volunteers are barely taller than the bins they are trying to fill — students the same age as those receiving these bags.
CHICAGO â The 10,000-seat wintrust arena in the South Loop is buzzing with activity but not a hoops game or concert but rather with volunteers, trying to make going back to school easier for thousands of families.Jock Jams fill Wintrust Arena for a different kind of coordinated competition as volunteers are racing to fill tens of thousands of backpacks with back-to-school supplies for Chicago students.
'Mikkola Diop starts the sixth grade in less than a month, and the 11-year-old is no stranger to the search for school supplies.'We always get a big list of what we have to buy, so we're just basically searching,' Diop said. She's here for the third year with her mom.'She's going into sixth grade. A lot of backpacks are going to the middle schoolers.
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