CHICAGO - Volunteers help offload Christmas trees aboard the deck of the Coast Guard Cutter Mackinaw at the Navy Pier in downtown Chicago, Dec. 5, 2009. The Macknaw delivered more than 1,000 Christmas trees from northern Michigan for Chicago-area needy familes in cooperation with the Chicago Christmas Tree Ship Committee and several charitable organizations. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer Bill Colclough.