Jahkil Jackson is going to have a hard time topping 2017, but something tells me he'll find a way.

The 10-year-old Chicagoan set out last year to create 5,000 blessing bags and distribute them to people who are homeless. The bags include soap, toothpaste, shampoo and other toiletries, socks and a healthy snack.

On Dec. 28, he packed his 5,000th bag. On Dec. 29, Barack Obama tweeted about him.

The former president was on an end-of-the-year hope-spreading mission, tweeting out a collection of stories from 2017 that "remind us what's best about America." Jahkil and his blessing bags made the list.

To see a former president of the United States grab hold of Jahkil's story and send it out to the world was to see someone look to Chicago for what's best about America.

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