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Charities across Chicago see huge shortage in coat donations as winter sets in: ‘we’re significantly thousands behind’

Summary by Chicago Tribune

As Chicago launches into months of winter weather, few items are more valuable than a warm coat. Yet nonprofits and community organizations that run winter coat drives say they are facing a serious shortage of donations this year as they try to help homeless and low-income Chicagoans weather the cold. Charities across Chicagoland rev up their annual drives over the holiday season, including for Christmas toys, books and food, in campaigns that a…

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