Laura Glaza, executive director of the Glen House Food Pantry in Glen Ellyn, explains the process of providing food for those in need. “We've been adding an extra shift on Thursday nights because we can't keep up with demand,” Glaza says. Paul Valade/pvalade@dailyherald.com

The Glen House Food Pantry has a brass plaque inscribed with a Gaelic greeting, roughly translated as “a hundred thousand welcomes.”

It was a prescient sign from the original home-turned-pantry in Glen Ellyn. Since the start of the year, the pantry has welcomed 367 new households for shopping services.

“We've been adding an extra shift on Thursday nights because we can't keep up with demand,” says Laura Glaza, the executive director.

As its member pantries face persistently high demand, the Northern Illinois Food B

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