Community organizations are getting nearly $700,000 in grant money to help increase healthy food access in the Chicago area.

CHICAGO — Mariano’s annual Hunger Relief Campaign couldn’t have come at a better time for the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which is experiencing record demand. The grocer and some of its partners, ...

The government shutdown continues, leaving nearly 2 million people in Illinois without Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits. Food pantries across the Chicago area are reporting an ...

And it’s only going to get worse. During the first half of November, unpaid federal workers, SNAP recipients cut off from benefits, and immigrants too scared to venture out to work swelled the already ...