Enchanted Backpack News Today

Scott Middle School received $20,000 in school supplies and funding on Monday as part of Enchanted Backpacks Adopt-A-School program.

Chicago Bulls player Jevon Carter is helping CPS students at Roswell Mason Elementary School in North Lawndale by giving them cold weather gear.

Enchanted Backpack, a 501(c)3 organization headquartered in Chicago, rolled up to Franklin Elementary Thursday morning with two van-loads of donated school supplies.

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“This is life changing for our kids. They’re not going to have to worry about where their supplies are coming from."

Enchanted Backpack works annually to deliver supplies to schools. A qualifying elementary or middle school must have at least 50% of its students eligible for free or reduced-price lunches.

The Lavin Family Foundation, created by the company that manufactured TRESemme and Alberto VO5, has expanded its philanthropy into Marion County.

Enchanted Backpack delivers donated supplies to Fox Lake middle school   Students at Stanton Middle School in Fox Lake hold thank-you signs they made to welcome the Enchanted Backpack vans arriving Tuesday to deliver supplies, 1,500 books, recess equipment, art supplies, winter clothing, shoes, personal care items, games, incentive items and more. Brian Hill | Staff Photographer   Stanton Middle School Principal Jeff Sefcik leads the Enchanted Backpack vans arriving at the Fox...

compiled by Josh Bootsma LANSING, Ill. (December 30, 2020) – Throughout 2020, The Lansing Journal has documented the many ways life has changed due to COVID-19, from the earliest cases of the virus in Illinois to how holiday plans have changed because of it. At the end of a year unlike any other in Lansing, The Lansing Journal has continued to add to a coronavirus timeline going back to the first Illinois case in January, with particular attention given to the virus’s impact on Lansing. Lin...