Energy Assistance Can Help Those in Need

Financial insecurities are a reality for over 300,000 families in Illinois. Every day, these families are faced with hard decisions on how to stretch their limited incomes to cover life’s most basic necessities: food, housing, medicines, and utilities.

Seniors, for example, will often opt to not purchase medicine or only take half of the prescribed amount so they will have enough money to pay all of their monthly bills. It is a harsh reality that, today, many families really do have to decide between heating and eating.     Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.