Non-profit gives away 1,000 boxes of food in response to Walmart closure

"My Block, My Hood, My City and Top Box Foods gave out 1,000 boxes filled with fresh fruits and vegetables to the South Side community as a temporary stopgap solution for an area that has now become even more of a food desert with the exit of the supermarket chain, who also closed three other Chicagoland locations as of Sunday, April 16."

“It hurts because now we got to go all the way to Western and 95th to go shopping,” said Juanita Pittman, an Englewood resident who was at the food drive Sunday."

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