Category Archives: COVID-19 Updates

For various reasons, we are serving a growing number of customers. Although we are happy to serve all customers, we are running out of food on the shelves, and many of our volunteers are unable to stay beyond scheduled hours.  Effective immediately: Any customer who is NOT in the building at closing time can register, […]

In Elgin, the City tells us that 5 percent of households do not have a car, so in addition to receiving our neighbors at the pantry to shop, Food for Greater Elgin delivers groceries to local residences, neighborhoods, and individuals who otherwise would not have access to affordable food. 

Three discussions dominated the April Board of Directors meeting held at 7:30 a.m. on Friday, April 8, 2022.   March was headlined by a record-breaking 3,288 families shopping the pantry, with a total of 4,294 families served (including those to whom we deliver food in low-income neighborhoods, seniors, and the medically shut-in). A total of almost […]

The Board of Directors of Food for Greater Elgin voted to suspend geographic boundaries for the duration of the winter (defined as January through the end of March, 2022). This means that our neighbors who live in Streamwood, Hampshire, or Gilbert will be welcomed to get food at Food for Greater Elgin! Why are we doing […]

Food For Greater Elgin is excited to announce our new shopping system: Our guests can now make online appointments, no more waiting in the cold! Equipped with a grant from the Hartmann Foundation, we have purchased a software system called Skiplino. Roughly 30 minutes before we open, people with a disability will be admitted to […]

Because Kane County has been lowered to a ‘Stage 3’ level of covid-19 infections, we are now implementing an additional level of safety precautions: No children will be allowed into the facility, We ask that households send one person to shop. We do this to ensure safe distancing between guests and to minimize the risk […]

The delivery of over 160 boxes of food to the Housing Authority of Elgin launched a new initiative by Food for Greater Elgin to get food to the hardest-hit neighborhoods of the greater Elgin area. The idea is to target neighborhoods where over 20% of the population is under the poverty level and provide them […]

Food for Greater Elgin has expanded its range of services to meet the food insecurity brought upon us by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Food For Greater Elgin needs your help to respond to an expected 20% increase in the number of families seeking food assistance.  Times of crisis help us remember who we are. Last Wednesday, President Trump’s speech shifted the paradigm as to the nature of the effect of the coronavirus on this country, and on Thursday, […]

As you are no doubt aware, the spread of the Coronavirus is an emerging issue around the world.  The Center for Disease Control warns us that it is not a matter of whether it will reach us, but when.  There are two immediate consequences for our work: It is not here yet. This is, however, […]