The Chi-Town Jazz Festival doubles as a fundraiser for area food pantries. The founder, a local priest, says jazz is a fitting genre to address social issues like hunger.
Hunger
Hunger is rising; 860,000 people were food insecure in Cook County in 2011. Out of those, one in five were children. The Greater Chicago Food Depository, a nonprofit food distribution and training center, which provides food for hungry people while striving to end hunger in Chicago, is expanding summer feeding programs to serve kids who usually receive their meals at schools. Read an article.
New Data for Cook County Released
More than 20 percent of Chicagoans don't know where their next meal is coming from. A new study by the Greater Chicago Food Depository reveals hunger across Cook County. Carol Marin takes a look at who's being hit hardest and why.
