Kate Maehr and Julie Yurko: We need to strengthen — not cut — SNAP benefits
Cuts to SNAP would be detrimental to the emergency food system in Illinois, including food pantries and food banks.
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Commentary: 3 ways you can help alleviate hunger
I keep thinking about all the car seats. Throughout summer, lines of cars at food distribution sites wrapped around city blocks in Chicago and in the suburbs. Many of them...
What if you had to feel hunger pangs?
On a frigid morning earlier this month on the South Side, people of every race and age lined up out the front door of the Greater Lawn Public Health Center...
Outside Opinion: Chicago must tackle child hunger
We asked six leaders to identify the Chicago area's biggest challenge in 2014 and a solution. Here is one of their answers: On a Thursday afternoon in November, a working...
Fighting poverty
This is regarding "For poorest of poor, each day's a struggle; Judy Sirko and her family know the upscale areas of the western suburbs well from routine `treasure hunts' through...