With school starting on Monday for Chicago Public Schools students, some teachers are doing their back-to-school shopping Saturday.
“Two of my friends, we come every year and it’s great because you can truly get everything you need and kind of everything that you run out of toward the end of the year,” teacher Ken Lowndes said.“The nice part is for $20 on a Saturday, it’s as much as you can kind of take and so it really cuts down on the costs for later in the year,” he said.in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood opened its doors this weekend to teachers, hosting its annual giveaway.
Every single item in the warehouse has been donated from businesses with a surplus, retiring teachers and interior design firms. Barbara Koenen is the founder and executive director of CCRX.“All of this stuff would be in the landfill because the people who had it didn’t know what to do with it, so we tend to just throw it out when it’s all really good,” Koenen said. “There’s a lot of people who could use it.
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