food pantries

Impact Central Illinois granted the food bank $118,000 to fund the truck, held at the Midwest Food Bank facility in Peoria.

The Starving Artists is a grassroots initiative encouraging Central Illinois musicians to hold monthly benefit concerts. A concert at the Coffeehouse in Normal on Jan. 24 is collecting donations for WYSE Food Pantry in West Bloomington.

City of Bloomington Township provided emergency food assistance to nearly 500 people whose SNAP benefits were denied during the recent federal government shutdown.

The St. Vincent De Paul food pantry has seen more and more families come to its doors since the government shutdown began last month, putting SNAP benefits in jeopardy.

A food distribution that serves hundreds of Bloomington-Normal residents each month is ending.

Democratic U.S. Rep. Eric Sorensen said a bipartisan bill he's co-sponsoring to reduce fentanyl smuggling at the southern border would also help suppress gun smuggling.

Tina Sipula undeniably touched thousands in Bloomington-Normal who’ve experienced homelessness or food insecurity through her nearly 40 years at Clare House, and after it closed in 2015 through Loaves and Fishes soup kitchen.

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