City of Chicago and South side COMmunity Resources

Mutual/COMmunity Aid

Organizations that are providing grocery donations and/or deliveries: 

• Hyde Park – Brave Space Alliance
• Kenwood – First United Church of Christ 
• Woodlawn – Experimental Station
• Greater South Side – Delacreme Scholars

Resources for parents: 

• Infant care for moms and families – Chicago Birthworks Collective
• Free parenting relief bags – The Dovetail Project

Legal Aid:

•  Housing and Debt
• COVID-specific aid

COVID-19

COVID-19 Testing Sites in Chicago

 Chicago Neighborhood Resource Directory

Food pantries/soup kitchens

COVID-19 City of Chicago resource

COVID-19 Grief Network

Shelter:

• You Can Make It
• Matthew House Chicago

Mental Health:

• 24-hour IDHS mental health support: text “TALK” or “HABLAR” to 552020 to receive a call from a counselor at a community mental health center
• Bright Star Community Outreach – Trained mental health professionals serving as trauma counselors available through their free hotline. 1 –833 – TURN123, Mon – Fri, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m

Alderperson Offices:

• Pat Dowell, 3rd Ward
• Sophia King, 4th Ward
• Leslie Hairston, 5th Ward
• Jeanette Taylor, 20th Ward