Artistic community refrigerators throughout Chicago offer free, healthy food
CHICAGO — The Love Fridge is a community refrigerator collective working to provide Chicago’s neighborhoods with free healthy foods through refrigerated items and pantry goods.
The collective, which started about two months ago, has seven refrigerators throughout the city, with an eighth on the way, said Kate Taylor Battle, a core organizer.
“We’ve been really, really, lucky to get so many fridges up in a short amount of time,” said Taylor Battle, who estimates the collective has put out approximately 30,000 pounds of food for people in Chicago’s communities.
All fridges have a “host,” Taylor Battle said, and 57th Street Books hosts the Hyde Park fridge in the alley behind the bookstore. Without the host, the refrigerators don’t get any power, and there’s a chance the city can remove them.
