Albany Park

Holy Order of Cherubim and Seraphim Movement – Food Distribution Center

• 4850 N Sawyer Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
• 773-383-0276

New Life Community Church - Albany Park

• 4540 N Hamlin Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
• 708-493-3676

Tabor Lutheran Church

• 3542 W Sunnyside Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
• 773-588-4040

Albany Park Food Pantry

• 3253 W Wilson Ave, Chicago, IL 60625
• 773-478-7941

Austin

Heritage International Community Development Corp.

• 5320 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
• 773-237-9600

Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church (GCFD)

• 1511 N Long Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
• 773-637-4800

Avondale

Open Arms Ministry

• 2649 N Francisco Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
• 773-252-3210

Belmont Cragin

Onward House

• 5433 W Diversey Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
• 773-622-3215

Iglesia Evangelica Emanuel

• 5016 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
• 773-237-1645

Grace and Peace Church

• 1856 N Leclaire Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
• 872-282-2252

Garfield Park

Breakthrough Urban Ministries Inc. (GCFD)

• 3334 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL 60624
• 773-722-1144

Greater Holy Temple COGIC (GCFD)

• 246 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60612
• 773-722-9430

Gladstone Park

New Hope Community Food Pantry (GCFD)

• 6125 W Foster, Chicago, IL 60630
• 773-775-1215

Hermosa

Life Impacters Foundation

• 2100 N Kildare Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
• 773-647-0000

New Hope Bible Church

• 1815 N Kostner Ave, Chicago, IL 60639
• 773-394-2860

Humboldt Park

European American Association

• 2827 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622
• 773-342-5868

Chicago Dream Center

• 2704 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
• 773-799-9023

St John UCC

• 2442 W Moffat St. Chicago, IL 60647
• 773-772-4161

El Mercadito

• 3533 W. North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
• 773-276-4900

Harbor Light Corps (GCFD)

• 825 N Christiana Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
• 312-667-2380

Mission of Our Lady of the Angels (GCFD)

• 3814 West Iowa Street, Chicago, IL 60651
• 773-486-8431

Irving Park

Irving Park Community Food Pantry

• 4256 N Ridgeway Ave, Chicago, IL 60618
• 773-283-6296

Rincon Family Services

• 3710 N. Kedzie Ave. Chicago, IL 60618
• 773-564 -9070

 

Lincoln Park

St Teresa of Avila Parish (GCFD)

• 1950 N Kenmore Ave, Chicago, IL 60614
• 773-528-6650

Logan Square

St Sylvester Parish

• 2915 W Palmer St, Chicago, IL 60647
• 773-235-3646

Chicago Hope Center

• 2505 N Kedzie Blvd, Chicago, IL 60647
• 773-499-9763

North Center

Common Pantry (GCFD)

• 3908 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 60613
• 773-327-0553

Old Irving Park

Polish American Association

• 3834 N Cicero Ave, Chicago, IL 60641
• 773-282-8206

Irving Park Corps Community Center

• 5020 N Pulaski Rd, Chicago, IL 60641
• 773-794-6207

Ravenswood

The Hub (Nourishing Hope)

• 5151 N. Ravenswood Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
• 773-525-1777

Uptown

Sheridan Market (Nourishing Hope)

• 3945 N. Sheridan Rd., Chicago, IL 60613
• 773-525-1777

West Humboldt Park

St Francis of Assisi Parish (GCFD)

• 932 N Kostner Ave, Chicago, IL 60651
• 312-810-0844

West Town

Nourishing Hope HQ

• 1716 W. Hubbard St, Chicago, IL 60622
• 773-525-1777

Northwestern University Settlement Association

• 1400 W Augusta Blvd, Chicago, IL 60622
• 773-278-7471

St Stanislaus Kostka (GCFD)

• 1351 W Evergreen Ave, Chicago, IL 60642
• 773-545-8300

Wicker Park

St Aloysius

• 1510 N Claremont Ave, Chicago, IL 60622
• 773- 278-4808

WELCOMING CENTERS
What is a Welcoming Center?

The Illinois Welcoming Centers (IWC) are a network of 34 full-service locations across the state, offering free, comprehensive support services to all immigrants and refugees in Illinois—regardless of immigration status.

What to Expect:
• Personalized case management and support in a culturally and linguistically appropriate manner.
• Assistance accessing benefits and services from state, federal, and local social service agencies.
• Development of Community Alliances to improve service coordination and strengthen local support networks.
• Community education workshops to empower and inform immigrant and refugee communities.

List of welcoming centers: IDHS: Illinois Welcoming Center (IWC)

Register for our monthly town halls here.

Our next meeting is April 28th at 7 p.m. via Zoom.

Graciela Guzmán (she/her/ella) serves as the state senator for District 20 and as an organizer for the Chicago Teachers Union. Before becoming state senator, she served as chief of staff for Senator Cristina Pacione-Zayas and political director for her and Senator Omar Aquino.

Her passion for health care, community, and helping others is derived from her family’s early experiences immigrating to the United States from El Salvador to escape the Salvadoran Civil War. She graduated from Grinnell College in 2011 with a degree in anthropology and serves on their Board of Trustees.

Graciela has organized policy campaigns around health care, child welfare, economic justice and immigration. As campaign director for the Healthy Illinois campaign, Graciela secured a key victory by making Illinois the first state in the nation to expand health care to low-income adults age 55 and older regardless of their immigration status. At the height of the pandemic, she helped form the Belmont Cragin Mutual Aid and Northwest Mutual Aid hub to serve families in Belmont Cragin, Hermosa, Belmont Gardens, Logan Square, Irving Park, and Portage Park.