The pandemic has taken its toll on feeding the hungry. Staggering need for food remains for the Greater Chicago Food Depository. Experts now blame inflation worldwide supply chain issues and the end of the monthly child credit tax payments as added reasons for the shortage.
The Sun Times says a way to battle against hunger, the food pantry plans to build a new 36,000 square foot facility, including a commercial kitchen at the current Archer Heights location on the southwest side.
The facility will allow the agency to prepare a distributor out 10,000 meals a day compared to about 600 currently. It's a project that was supposed to start back in 2020 that had to be put on hold because of the pandemic.