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'Divine chaos': Christmas Cheer Foundation packs, delivers 15,000 meals

Phil Calabrese, who co-founded what is now the Christmas Cheer Foundation about 35 years ago, called a Dec. 25 packing session that resulted in 15,000 meals packed and delivered as “divine chaos” and even “a miracle.”

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Volunteers Deliver Holiday Cheer With Christmas Day Meals

Dozens of volunteers for the Christmas Cheer Foundation were up early Thursday morning delivering meals to families who could use some cheer this holiday season.

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Volunteers Brighten Christmas For People In Need

From the North Side to the South Side, many people gave of themselves so that others could celebrate this Christmas.

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Nonprofit Delivers Christmas Day Meals to Thousands

Throughout history, Santa Claus has appeared in many forms, but generally not as a 70-year-old Italian-American man sipping red wine over a nice plate of veal. And yet there was Phil Calabrese, a Santa-like figure to more than 15,000 Chicago-area people, enjoying a meal at an Elmwood Park restaurant and struggling to explain how he came to be a purveyor of Christmas miracles.

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