At Hope Church. in Chicago, as gas prices increased and inflation now hits the pockets of families in the area, the Tuesday dinner has become an important part of the neighborhood, feeding more than 100 people from diverse backgrounds week after week.
At Hope Church, Anthony Chierico, left, and Marc Sugudom, right, prepare meals for people at a weekly supper on July 26, 2022.
The couple had made nearly 200 tamales to donate for a free community dinner that takes place every Tuesday since November 2021, at Hope Church. As gas prices increased and inflation hits the pockets of area families, the Tuesday dinner has become an important part of the neighborhood, feeding more than 100 people from diverse backgrounds week after week.Liz Perez prepares food at Hope Church for the church’s weekly food service on July 26, 2022. Perez is a member of Hope Church in La Grange.
The couple wokeup at 4 a.m. to prepare the pork and chicken tamales with green and red salsa. “We are grateful for what we have now and we are so happy to help,” Guzman said. A group of members and volunteers of Hope Church — a Christian institution with headquarters in La Grange and several other campuses in the Chicago area — began mobilizing to find a way to help those in need as the pandemic disproportionately affected communities of color in 2020. That’s when the church invested in building a commercial kitchen in their Pilsen campus, at 1809 S. Racine Ave.,intending to cook for the community.
“Everyone is so nice to me and the food is great,” said Pili, as her neighbors call her while sitting with her husband outside their home. “The work that they do is so great for the people that live in the area and have nowhere to go.” For Jasmine Placencia, a single mother of two girls and also a longtime Pilsen resident, the dinners have been a blessing.
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