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Rising cost of groceries sends more people to local food pantries

As the price of food at the grocery store rises, so does the number of people seeking help from area food pantries.

Old St. Pat’s parishioners donate commercial stove to soup kitchen

Frieda Holley has been providing hot meals to people in the Back of the Yards neighborhood for more than 30 years. Holley, the namesake of Frieda’s Place at Su Casa Catholic Worker House at 51st and Laflin streets, serves breakfast to everyone who turns up on Tuesdays and Thursdays and works with parishes and other groups to provide brunch on Sundays.

Waukegan food pantry makes Christmas feasts possible

Darlene Montesdeoca has served as the food pantry coordinator at Most Blessed Trinity Parish in Waukegan for many years. But before that she was a client in need of food for herself and her daughters.

St. Rita Parish provides over 550 families with Thanksgiving supplies

More than 550 families received turkeys and other food for their Thanksgiving meals at St. Rita of Cascia Church, 6243 S. Fairfield Ave., Nov. 20.

Food insecurity still high as pandemic continues, pantries say

When the Mission of Our Lady of the Angels in West Humboldt Park reopened its indoor food pantry on July 13, people were lined up around the block to get in. The mission served 312 families, the highest ever for the indoor pantry.

Project22Nine rescues prepared meals to give to those in need

While the pandemic has caused many non-profits to rethink the way they conduct their outreach, it has also created new ministerial opportunities for others.

Cristo Rey St. Martin students help feed those in need in Waukegan

In freezing temperatures and high winds the morning of Jan. 30, about 80 students and 30 staff and friends of Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep in Waukegan worked in the school’s parking lot filling car trunks with food from the Northern Illinois Food Bank.

St. Mary of the Lake moves pop-up to Lakeview Pantry

Shortly after the pandemic hit, parishioners of St. Mary of the Lake Church, 4220 N. Sheridan Road, mobilized and opened a pop-up food pantry to serve those in the immigrant and refugee communities who were experiencing food insecurity as a result of job loss or other factors.

Soup kitchen at Waukegan parish doesn’t stop for pandemic

When COVID-19 forced many soup kitchens to close down, the Holy Family Soup Kitchen at Most Blessed Trinity Parish in Waukegan didn’t miss a day. Instead, it shifted from serving hot meals in person to distributing those meals in to-go containers at the door.

St. Eulalia’s Quinn Center adapts to keep feeding those in need

When the pandemic forced St. Eulalia Parish’s weekly soup kitchen to close because of social distancing requirements, the parish’s Quinn Community Center staff decided it could still distribute meals and groceries to people safely with a drive-thru model.
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