(CHICAGOTRIBUNE) — At dusk Sunday, Santa rode up to a Far South Side school in a firetruck, led a cheerful crowd of parents, students and community members in a round of “Jingle Bells” and “Feliz Navidad,” and took a group selfie before climbing on St. Florian School’s roof.
And there he will stay, school officials and supporters say, until the small Catholic school in the Hegewisch neighborhood can raise the $56,000 necessary to keep its doors open for the 2015-16 school year.
“We are the forgotten part of Chicago because we are surrounded by all the steel mills that closed,” said school board member Dawn Klein-Pilota. “We need to bring awareness here again.”
