{"id":13048,"date":"2015-04-15T17:56:25","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T22:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/?p=13048"},"modified":"2015-04-15T17:57:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T22:57:22","slug":"foodie-5k-ran-up-1-million-in-groceries-for-hungry-neighbors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.medill.northwestern.edu\/chicago\/foodie-5k-ran-up-1-million-in-groceries-for-hungry-neighbors\/","title":{"rendered":"Foodie 5K runs up $1 million in groceries for hungry neighbors"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Sara Shouhayib<\/p>\n

Over 1,200 runners and walkers took their place at the starting line of the second annual Foodie 5K race on Saturday morning and raised $130,000 to fight hunger.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s enough money to provide the equivalent of $1 million worth of groceries to feed hungry people in Northern Illinois.<\/p>\n

“We know that one in seven of our neighbors are at risk of missing meals in the coming year,” said Julie Yurko,\u00a0president and CEO of the Northern Illinois Food Bank, serving 13 counties.<\/p>\n

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The food bank serves 13 counties in Northern Illinois .\u00a0(Sara Shouhayib\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s also one in five children, which is really heartbreaking for me as a mom and for so many of us,\u201d said Yurko. \u201cThe truth is there are more people living in poverty in the suburbs of Chicago than in the city itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

The annual fundraiser at Cantigny Park in Wheaton is organized by the food bank, to raise not only money but also awareness about\u00a0 the number of people struggling with hunger in the area.<\/p>\n

Pinky Jain of suburban Winfield said it\u2019s an issue at Pleasant Hill Elementary School where her sons go to school. This is her second year participating in the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cHunger is definitely an issue in our community, which surprised us. In the boys\u2019 school typically one out of four children that attend school does get a subsidized lunch,” she said.\u00a0 “It is definitely an issue that a lot of people are unaware of and so supporting this cause today, this Foodie 5K, is to build awareness of the need for local communities, local neighbors that do need help in getting healthy nutritious foods provided to them.”<\/p>\n

The Northern Illinois Food Bank provides support to Boone, DuPage, DeKalb, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Lake, McHenry, Ogle, Stephenson, Will and Winnebago counties. It has its food bank centers in Lake, Rockford and Geneva counties. The food bank is a part of the larger Feeding America Network that consists of hundreds of food banks across the country.<\/p>\n

Cook County, where one in six people struggles with hunger, is served by the Greater Chicago Food Depository.<\/p>\n

Yurko said that every dollar donated is equivalent to $8 worth of groceries because of time given by volunteers and food donations that the food bank receives.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is enough food thanks to our very generous food donors, our retailers, our manufacturers who when there\u2019s food their not taking to market, that they give to us so that we can give it out to our hungry neighbors,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Grocery stores are large contributors to the food bank when they are looking to restock their shelves. Meijer was the main sponsor of the Foodie 5K. The chain also contributed by providing bananas and cereal at the finish line for participants.<\/p>\n

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Runners fueled up on fruit donated by Meijer after the Foodie 5K. (Sara Shouhayib\/Medill)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Culligan, the water treatment company, is another sponsor of the event. They offered bottled water for walkers and runners in the race.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe chose to come out today because we like to be involved in the community and we also found out that the proceeds go to helping the less fortunate, the hungry neighbors so it was a no brainer for us,\u201c\u00a0said Sean Panzeca, office manager of the company’s Wheaton location .<\/p>\n

Nine food trucks selling meals were also present for the \u201cfoodie\u201d theme of the day, some coming back for the second year in a row.<\/p>\n

Yurko said she is confident that hunger in Northern Illinois is solvable.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, we\u2019re providing just over 50 million meals [a year], which I think is great but we have a great big hairy audacious goal of meeting the meal gap -providing 75 million meals annually by the year 2020,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The food bank hosts two more races this year <\/a>that will follow a similar format to the Foodie 5K to raise funds.\u00a0Races are planned\u00a0in Libertyville in May and another in Joliet in October.<\/p>\n

Photo at top: Foodie 5K run attracted 1,200 racers and walkers who raised money for the Northern Illinois Food Bank. (Sara Shouhayib\/Medill)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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