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Wednesday Supper CHI serves a sit-down evening meal every Wednesday from 4 - 5:30 pm in the dining room at...
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Wednesday Supper CHI serves a sit-down evening meal every Wednesday from 4 - 5:30 pm in the dining room at...
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Success Stories
During December 2023, CHI placed three people in housing, taking them out of crisis situations and into an opportunity to...
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News
We might pass a place where people are sleeping in tents, or someone with a sign and a cup. We...
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Events
Friends old and new, turned out for CHI's 2023 "Feeding Hope" Gala on September 14th at The Forum at 11...
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Dear Friends, It's about the relationships. Making the human connection is what we do best. From our meals to our...
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In early 2022, we asked several of our partners who run community meals if they would offer their guests...
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CHI's 2022 Holiday Bazaar, held on December 7th in the dining room at Catholic Charities was a great success. We...
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News
A hot meal. Warm socks. A kind word. These might seem like small things...until you don’t have them, and then...
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CHI's Feeding Hope Gala Returns to Chicago Sports Museum on Sept. 15th. We're excited to announce that, due to popular...
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July 21, 2022 CHI Founder and President Emerita Jacqueline Hayes joined CHI Board VP Tom Morrisey in New York City...
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Success Stories
Streetwise magazine Editor-in-Chief Suzanne Hanney gets up close and personal with The Chicago Help Initiative. Her touching cover story for...
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News
Jacqueline Ingles, a law student and Ukrainian Village resident, saw a posting about The Chicago Help Initiative needing lunch donations...
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Did you know?
30% of Chicago’s homeless population suffers from mental illness.
“They help us with food, social services. Nothing but love, that’s how I feel about the Chicago Help Initiative.”
Andre