Food/Housing/Furnishings Assistance in Chicago
FOOD
For a list of Food Pantries throughout Chicago visit:
https://www.foodpantries.org/ci/il-chicago
Greater Food Depository
Available M-F from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
773-247-3663
https://www.chicagosfoodbank.org/
Find food near you
https://www.chicagosfoodbank.org/find-food/
Lakeview Pantry
https://www.lakeviewpantry.org/get-food/
Sheridan Market
3945 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago IL 60613
La Casa Norte’s Fresh Market
3533 N. North Ave., Chicago IL 60647
Food access, social services
https://www.lakeviewpantry.org/get-food/la-casa-nortes-fresh-market/
Home Delivery
On Saturday’s (excluding Holiday weekends), Lakeview Pantry delivers food to people in our neighborhood who need it the most and who otherwise cannot receive services. This service is for older adults, differently abled, and the homebound.
https://www.lakeviewpantry.org/get-food/home-delivery/
Health and Hope Program
Lakeview pantry has teamed up with Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center on the Northside to distribute nutritious groceries to low-income patients undergoing cancer treatment. The goal is to
https://www.lakeviewpantry.org/get-food/health-and-hope-program/
HOUSING FOR WOMEN
https://www.womenshelters.org/cit/il-chicago
Christian Community Health Center- Chicago
8025 South Honore
Chicago, IL - 60620
(773) 874-2500
Email Website
St. Elizabeth Catholic Worker (SECW) is a not-for-profit corporation located in an African-American community on the south side of Chicago. Their mission is to serve homeless mothers and their children by not only providing physical stability through shelter and meals but also empowering their residents through support, education, job training, skill development and affirmation.
Sarah’s Circle - Chicago
4838 N Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL - 60640
(773) 728-1014
Email Website
Sarah's Circle is a drop-in center that offers a welcoming, supportive, non-intrusive safe refuge for women who are homeless, transient and of low income. They respect each woman and her individuality, and offer her the opportunity to make positive changes in her life. They provide options, services and advocacy, meeting the needs of hundreds of women who come through their doors.
Reach Out NFP - Chicago
2443 W. 16th Street
Chicago, IL - 60608
(312) 617-3581
Email Website
Reach Out NFP is dedicated to making a difference in the community by fundraising for organizations who assist and help victims of domestic violence and their families.
St. Martin de Porres House of Hope - Chicago
6423 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL - 60637
7736434853
Email Website
St. Martin de Porres House of Hope creates a safe, healing community where women and their children recover from substance abuse, trauma and mental illness. They provide long-term housing up to 18 months for women and children. In addition to counseling and case management services. Many women find that there are triggers in their life that lead to relapse.
By staying in their program for a minimum of 12 months, their participants can get better control over their addiction before returning to their normal environment.
Mcdermott Center - Chicago
932 West Washington
Chicago, IL - 60607
(312) 226-7984
Email Website
Haymarket Center's services reflect its mission ''to aid people in their recovery from chemical dependency and related problems by assisting them to identify and remove barriers to recovery through a continuum of professional care''.
Roseland Christian Ministries - Chicago
10858 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL - 60628
(773) 264-5665
Email Website
The g.r.o.w. program began in September 2013 for women who are recovering from addiction, recently released from incarceration, or without housing. The women have their own rooms at Roseland Christian Ministries for 18 months. During that time, they attend devotions, Bible study and regular Sunday worship services at Roseland Christian Reformed Church.
Job training is provided at their Resale Shop.
RCM staff and volunteers work with women to graduate from their program and find employment and housing.
Olive Branch Mission - Chicago
2636 West Marquette Road
Chicago, IL - 60629
(773) 948-3004
Email Website
Olive Branch Mission provides overnight shelter and interim housing (meals, clothing, showers, housing applications, job referral services, case management, personal development classes, and other support services...) in the process of moving homeless single women, mothers with children and intact families to more stable housing.
Lincoln Park Community Shelter - Chicago
600 West Fullerton Parkway
Chicago, IL - 60614
(773) 549-6111
Email Website
The mission of the Lincoln Park Community Shelter is to bring the community together to empower homeless men and women to make life changes. The Interim Housing Community serves up to 35 Guests each night year-round –24 men and 11 women. In addition to meals and safe living space, the Interim Housing Community provides storage space, showers, and laundry facilities for Guests.
There is a waiting list for this program.
After completing an intake appointment, a person will be placed on the waiting list and will be asked to call each week until there is space available in the program.
Once admitted, there is no time limit to length of stay, as long as a person is making progress toward goals and following all rules and requirements.
Family Rescue - Chicago
P.O. Box 17528
Chicago, IL - 60617
(773) 375-1918
Email Website
24-HR Crisis Line: 800-360-6619 Family Rescue is dedicated to eliminating domestic violence in the Chicago community by providing comprehensive support services and shelter to victims of domestic violence; particularly to abused women and their children; engaging in advocacy to promote future system change and encouraging prevention through community education.
Apna Ghar (Our Home), Inc. - Chicago
4350 N Broadway
Chicago, IL - 60613
(773) 334-4663
Website
Apna Ghar provides holistic services to women and children across immigrant communities in the Chicago area to end the cycle of domestic violence. Apna Ghar empowers women to be self-sufficient by a full spectrum of services from education to emergency and transitional housing to counseling and legal services.
Cornerstone Community Outreach Shelters - Chicago
4615 N. Clifton Ave.
Chicago, IL - 60640
7732718163
Email Website
Cornerstone Community Outreach Shelters provide housing for women, children, and men in a network of shelter programs, working with the City of Chicago and various other governmental and private agencies. They focus particularly on those who are least likely to find aid via other means.
Maria Shelter - Chicago
7320 South Yale Avenue
Chicago, IL - 60621
(773) 994-5350
Email Website
Maria Shelter is a 50-bed interim shelter in the Englewood community for primarily for homeless women and their children. Each year, the facility provides food, shelter and programs to promote health and wellness and self-sufficiency for more than 200 women and children.
A Safe Haven - Chicago
2750 West Roosevelt Road
Chicago, IL - 60608
(773) 435-8300
Email Website
If you or someone you know is looking to escape an abusive relationship, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline Number at 1-800-787-3224. This number is staffed 24 hours a day by trained counselors who can provide crisis assistance and information about shelters, legal advocacy, health care centers and counseling.
A Safe Haven provides Drug and Alcohol Treatment and individual and group recovery education, programs and meetings.
Based on a 12 step model, the professional mental health services benefit participants on site.
Chicago Abused Women Coalition Dba Connections for Abused Women and Their Children - Chicago
1116 North Kedzie Avenue
Chicago, IL - 60651
(773) 489-9081
Email Website
If you or someone you know is looking to escape an abusive relationship, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline Number at 1-800-787-3224. This number is staffed 24 hours a day by trained counselors who can provide crisis assistance and information about shelters, legal advocacy, health care centers and counseling.
Cornerstone Community Outreach - Naomi House - Chicago
4628 North Clifton Ave
Chicago, IL - 60640
(773) 271-8163
Email Website
If you or someone you know is looking to escape an abusive relationship, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline Number at 1-800-787-3224. This number is staffed 24 hours a day by trained counselors who can provide crisis assistance and information about shelters, legal advocacy, health care centers and counseling.
Deborah’s Place - Chicago
2822 West Jackson Blvd.
Chicago, IL - 60612
(773) 722-5080
Email Website
Deborahs Place is a safe haven for women experiencing homelessness. A Safe Haven program provides semi-private housing for people who have experienced chronic homelessness and have a severe mental illness. Someone who is chronically homeless has consistently lived without housing for a year or more and/or they have experienced more than four episodes of homelessness within three years.
Breakthrough Urban Ministries - Women’s Services - Chicago
3330 West Carroll Avenue
Chicago, IL - 60624
(773) 722-0179
Website
If you or someone you know is looking to escape an abusive relationship, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline Number at 1-800-787-3224. This number is staffed 24 hours a day by trained counselors who can provide crisis assistance and information about shelters, legal advocacy, health centers and counseling.
ReVive Center for Housing and Healing - Chicago
1668 West Ogden Avenue
Chicago, IL - 60612
(312) 997-2222
Email Website
ReVive Center for Housing and Healing mission is to minister with love and compassion among and with the most vulnerable of our community - particularly those who suffer from addiction - through crisis intervention, addiction recovery, community assistance and life skills development.
Breakthrough Urban Ministries, Inc. - Chicago
PO Box 47200
Chicago, IL - 60647
Email Website
If you or someone you know is looking to escape an abusive relationship, please call the National Domestic Violence Hotline Number at 1-800-787-3224. This number is staffed 24 hours a day by trained counselors who can provide crisis assistance and information about shelters, legal advocacy, health centers, and counseling.
Reclaim 13
2200 S Main St. Suite 306, Lombard, IL, 60148
630.209.4554 | info@reclaim13.org
FURNITURE
Chicago Furniture Bank
The mission of the Chicago Furniture Bank is to provide dignity, stability and comfort to Chicagoans that face poverty by allowing clients to handpick an entire home's worth of furnishings for free. They believe everyone should be able to sleep in a bed, share a family meal at a kitchen table, and enjoy the comfort of a furnished home.