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Ensuring children have toys all year long

When Michelle Maxia quit her job as a Cook County Sheriff’s deputy to stay home with her kids, she started cleaning out their toys to donate the ones they no longer used to charity.

Prayers and bears for unaccompanied minors

Chicago-area Catholics are hoping that unaccompanied immigrant children will feel the love that comes with the more than 1,300 stuffed animals collected by their parishes. “The message we are sending is to embrace these children,” said Lupe Partida of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish, 3200 E. 91st St., “to give them the sense of having encountered Jesus, who said ‘Let the children come to me.’”

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