Rich Heneberry of Lake Villa carries out a box of Christmas gifts to be loaded on a truck at One Hope United in Lake Villa. One Hope United staff members, teens from the CARE Residential Treatment Program along with U.S. Navy service members loaded trucks with gifts for 2,300 children and delivered to Waukegan, Elgin, Joliet, Aurora, Kankakee and the Chicagoland area. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media

One Hope United fund development Nicole Apolo of Trevor, Wisconsin helps load Christmas gifts on a truck at One Hope United in Lake Villa. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media

Fund development coordinator Laura Yingling of Round Lake helps load Christmas gifts on a truck at One Hope United in Lake Villa. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media

U.S. Navy Chief Machinist Mate Thomas Taylor of Gurnee helps load Christmas gifts on a truck past Hot Cocoa in the lobby of One Hope United in Lake Villa. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media

Anthony Jones of Waukegan helps loads trucks with Christmas gifts at One Hope United in Lake Villa. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media

Ricardo Castro of Waukegan helps loads trucks with Christmas gifts at One Hope United in Lake Villa. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media

Ricardo Castro of Waukegan hands a bag of Christmas gifts to Krystal Hefner of Silver Lake, Wisconsin as they load a truck at One Hope United in Lake Villa. Hefner is a Youth Care Worker for One Hope United. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media

U.S. Navy Chief Machinist Mate Thomas Taylor of Gurnee helps load Christmas gifts on a truck at One Hope United in Lake Villa. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media

Howard Schnitzer (left) of Lake Villa and U.S. Navy Chief Naval Air Crewman Kevin Catallo of Libertyville load Christmas gifts on a truck at One Hope United in Lake Villa. Schnitzer is chairman of the board for One Hope United. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media

One Hope United fund development Liz Hall of Paddock Lake, Wisconsin helps load Christmas gifts on a truck at One Hope United in Lake Villa. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media

U.S. Navy Chief Boatswain's Mate Steve Weigand of New York loads a truck with Christmas gifts at One Hope United in Lake Villa. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media

Anthony Jones of Waukegan hands a bag of Christmas gifts to U.S. Navy Chief Boatswain's Mate Steve Weigand of New York as they load a truck along with Chief Machinist MateThomas Taylor of Gurnee (left) and Chief Naval Air Crewman Kevin Catallo of Libertyville at One Hope United in Lake Villa. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media