Follow @MarkBrownCST School children across Chicago might have found it somewhat odd in mid-October when their teachers assigned them to write letters to Santa. Eight-year-old Aide Arambula certainly did. “I was confused because it was Halloween, and Christmas is after Halloween,” said Aide, a very astute third-grader at Columbia Explorers Academy in Brighton Park. I completely understand her confusion, and I have an explanation to help put everyone’s mind at ease so they don’t think their teachers are losing it. These weren’t just any letters to Santa. These were the Chicago Sun-Times Charity Trust’s “Letters to Santa,” our annual program asking readers to give Santa a hand and make the...
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