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Before anyone picks up a racket at MetroSquash summer camp, a program that offers free squash lessons for kids, the morning starts at a long table. Blueberry muffins and cartons of milk are distributed to a room full of kids before they launch into a full day of squash, academics and games.
Paradise Sanders, 9, is excited about today’s breakfast. "...
Max Sansing has been painting on walls in Chicago since he was 14. He started doing murals at 18, and by his late 20s he was designing and painting large-scale pieces of his own. In July 2026, after more than a month of work, Sansing finished the mural that now covers the front of the Food Depository.
It is the second mural to grace the building. M...
According to a 2024 City Colleges of Chicago basic needs survey, 50% of students identified as food insecure. Many of these students are balancing school while supporting themselves and their families, and more than 60% of associate degree graduates are the first in their families to attend college, often facing greater financial barriers as they work tow...
On a warm afternoon at Heirs of the Promise summer camp in Chicago's Austin neighborhood, kids line up for sandwiches, blood oranges and cartons of milk. Staff hand out lunch boxes quickly as the room buzzes with the energy of a summer day.
For the roughly 50 children who attend the camp each day, breakfast and lunch are a daily constant — meals pr...