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Care For Friends

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Care For Friends

Care For Friends provides easy access to community, food and overall wellness for Chicago's most vulnerable and under-served people.

Care for Friends provides easy access to community, food and overall wellness for Chicago’s most vulnerable and under-served people, in an atmosphere of dignity and respect. Through its programs, Care for Friends successfully connects people with community resources to enable them to achieve a better quality of life.

03/03/2026

We reserved a Tee time 🏌️ Will your bring your A-Game?

We’re collaborating with Halsted for another chill gathering in support of Care for Friends! ⛳️

➕PLUS! Give the good folks a heads up you’re with CFF and 20% of your tab goes directly to supporting our neighbors with wrap-around services including nutritious meals, groceries, clothing and toiletries, medical care, and social services.

Big Mini Putt Club is a family-friendly bar with a great NA menu, some food, games, and a small indoor mini-golf course. 🙆🏼

Hope you can play with us or stop by and say hello!

02/27/2026

As we close up Black History Month, let’s be reminded how integral black business, culture and organization have been in the creation of our communities. There is no US history without black history.

Likewise, we cannot foster community if we don’t support each-other. So we at CFF ask you to take a dive into the wonderful spaces that surround us. Community, love, and safety is always closer than you think, and these places prove that.

Thank you for being a part of our community.

02/13/2026

Around 220,000 Chicagoans are uninsured.

For those experiencing homelessness, the reality is even worse. In fact, people experiencing homelessness average 1.4 million emergency department visits each year. Those without stable housing often turn to hospital emergency departments when they feel they have nowhere else to go for medical care.

That’s were we come in.

Through multiple clinics and meaningful partnerships with organizations like CountyCare, PrimeCare health and Tapestry 360 health, we’ve worked to provide a stable medical home to 75% of our guests. Somewhere where they are safe, where they can be seen and where their medical needs can be met.

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Wanna join in on proving a medical home and barrier free clinics to Chicagos most underserved? Click the link in our bio and be sure to attend this year’s 11th annual Sleepout. The show being at 7pm at 540 W Fullerton parkway.

See ya there!

02/11/2026

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To see how CFF tackles healthcare at the source - by providing medical assistance to those most vulnerable.

Your participation in Sleepout, (whether that’d be sleeping out with us, donating or following along) helps ensure these vital programs keep on on serving our friends in Chicago.

Click the link in our bio for more info
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02/03/2026

Your participation in Sleepout ensures the continued support in various Care For Friends programing, including our awesome Carepack program!

Care For Friends “Carepack” program allows us the deliver a months worth of groceries to students experiencing food and home insecurity. These packages are delivered to whereever the student is staying. This past year alone we delivered groceries to over 700 families!

Wanna lend a hand in feeding some of our friends in Chicago? Sign up for Sleepout now through the link in our bio or CFFsleeps.com.

See ya there 💚💙💚💙

01/28/2026

Food security is the reliable access to a sufficient amount of healthy and affordable food for all people, regardless of their status, ethnicity, gender, religion, or class.

Food security is not a reality for many of our friends in Chicago. In fact, at least 19% of Chicagoans are food insecure and those with children are at an even greater risk. With the rising cost of living and constant changes to SNAP benefits, many of our friends are left wondering if they can cut any more costs in their food budget.

At CFF, food is at the heart of what we do. From running a hot meal program, to operating a food pantry, and delivering food to over 25 wards. We are there.

Wanna know how you can be there for your friends in Chicago? Check out the link in our bio

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01/13/2026

This year, we celebrate our 11th Annual Sleepout for Homelessness and our work together is now more crucial than ever. With many changes happening in the world many of our friends are left wondering if they’ll have food or warmth. You can help provide an answer.

Each year we gather together to raise money, awareness and stay up all night to light a path for those facing home and food insecurity. Through 4 ways of participation you can ensure our friends in Chicago can recieve the help they need.

For more info or to sign up please visit Careforfriends.org/sleepout-homelessness or visit the link in our bio.

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01/12/2026

Every other week, South Loop Community Table has a clothing drive with generous donations by the incredible 🧣🧤👚🧢👖🧦 We want to take a moment to thank them for their contributions to helping our local Chicago friends feel happier through good clothing. Visit 1936 S Michigan Ave on Sunday evenings for SLCT’s weekly meal services and pick out some clothing pieces every other week to stay warm this winter season! 💙💚

01/08/2026

Meet Annie and Melissa — our new OT interns from DePaul University. They are BEYOND excited to learn and connect with new people over the next few months. Visit them every Thursday at our Edgewater location at 5749 N Kenmore Ave.

01/06/2026

2025 has been the most transformative year for Care For Friends. And each step of the way we had you.

We couldn’t do any of this without you. Yes, you reading this right now! Without you we would not be able to provide 654 families with monthly nutritional assistance via our CarePack Grocery Delivery Program.

There wouldn’t be 13,181 three-course meals served to our friends in Chicago without you.

Or 1,737 visits to our pantry.

Without you, we couldn’t distribute 70,000+ pounds of food across all our programs.

Everything we do is only possible through the collective strength of our community - and this past year, our community grew stronger than ever.

Whether you stopped in one day to lend an hour of your time, or followed us on social media, or donated, or told a friend about us. You are the reason for any success we share.

Without you there is no community, and there is certainly no us. So pat yourself on the back because you made 2025 happen 💚💙

We can’t wait to see all the greatness you have in store for 2026

12/18/2025

We jammed out to John Slivka at South Loop Community Table (SLCT) this past Sunday! 🎸It was a BLAST having live music during our weekly dinner 🍽️ If you or anyone you know is interested in volunteering to play live at SLCT or any of the Care For Friends locations, send us a DM 💚💙

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530 W. Fullerton Parkway
Chicago, IL
60614

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm
Saturday	10:30am - 1pm

Website

http://www.CareForFriends.org/

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