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TINLEY PARK, IL — About $1,000 was believed baseborn Christmas night from a donation box accession money for a nonprofit accumulation in advanced of a Tinley Park abode accepted for its busy anniversary lights, the homeowner said. Dominic Kowalczyk has been decorating his home for the holidays for added than 20 years, and he has acclimated the absorption that has fatigued to accession money for charity. This is the aboriginal time his backyard box, which was accession donations for Tinley Park's Together We Cope, has been baseborn from his acreage in the bristles years he's been accepting contributions, he told Patch on Thursday.

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Kowalczyk had aftermost apparent the donation box at about 8:30 p.m. Dec. 25, while he was in advanced of his home, 17321 Avon Lane, chatting with accompany who were over for a ancestors Christmas party. Back he alternate alfresco at about 10 p.m. to accumulate the money from the day, the box had been taken, he said.

Normally, the box is chained bottomward in advanced of the house. But because of the affair and the abiding breeze of bodies active by to attending at his lights Christmas night, he didn't do that for the abbreviate time he wasn't outside, he said. Although he doesn't apperceive the exact bulk of money in the box back it was stolen, he estimates it was about $1,000 acknowledgment to a few ample donations that night from accompany and the added aggregation cartage of Christmas Day (admirers of Kowalczyk's anniversary lights are able to drive up and bead contributions into the box after accepting out of their cars).

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Kowalczyk said he appear the annexation to Tinely Park police, but so far, they haven't been able to acquisition out who took the box. The home doesn't accept any alfresco aegis cameras, and alike if he did, badge told him that they would accept bare to be aimed aloof appropriate in adjustment to abduction a car's authorization plate. All of the aflame lights from the anniversary decorations and the bulk of bodies active by additionally would accept fabricated anecdotic suspects in a video difficult, he said.

The annexation of the box hasn't chock-full Kowalczyk from continuing his fundraising efforts, though. He put out a new box Wednesday, but this time he's taken added measures to defended it, including application a thicker alternation that's anchored four anxiety into the ground.

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"If that doesnt' work, I don't apperceive what added I accept to do," he said about preventing a echo theft.

All the money Kowalczyk collects in the donation box goes to Together We Cope. After the aboriginal year application his Christmas affectation as a fundraiser, Kowalczyk says he started a accepted afore the holidays of ambience a banking ambition he wants to ability that season. If donations appear up abbreviate of that, he makes up the admonition with a addition in the name of the Tinley Park architecture aggregation he owns, Architecture Concepts.

He aloft a little added than $1,500 in the aboriginal year, and the totals accept been beyond and beyond anniversary year back then. Despite the theft, he still affairs to accord $10,000 to Together We Cope, which provides food, shelter, accouterment and added abetment to bodies in crisis.

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Over the years, Kowalczyk's displays, which absorb hundreds of bags of lights and can booty up to 500 hours to assemble, accept garnered bounded and civic attention. In 2013, the home was featured on ABC's "Great Light Fight."

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Kowalczyk's lights will abide up through Jan. 1, and bodies will still be able to accomplish drive-by donations during that time. Anyone who can't get out to see the lights but would still like to accord to Together We Cope through Kowalczyk's efforts can acquaintance him via email at dominic@constructionconceptsofil.com to acquisition out how to accomplish a addition through PayPal.