Mayor Brandon Johnson and 40 members of City Council helped distribute thousands of gifts to kids from all over Chicago.
CHICAGO -- The city's looming budget deadline might have been on the back of their minds, but Chicago families were the focus of city leaders on Saturday at Christmas in the Wards.McCormick Place was stocked with so many toys, it could have been the North Pole.'If there's no PlayStation left, I'll take an icemaker, a dreamhouse. It doesn't matter. A microwave,' said Maria Henderson, one of the many parents who came out to get gifts for their kids.
'It shows me that we matter to our community, to our community leaders; and then it also gives us more under the Christmas tree, which sometimes can be really hard to provide when you've got a whole family and you're just trying to make ends meet,' Stanton said.Since it first started in 1996, Christmas in the Wards has served approximately 12,000 families across Chicago.
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