Our Programs
Meals on Wheels Northeastern Illinois is a powerhouse movement of neighbors preparing and serving or delivering meals to older adults, individuals with physical and cognitive disabilities, and other home bound individuals unable to prepare their own food. We provide short-term services to help during a medical situation like recovering after surgery, or long-term services to support a healthy life.
If you are interested in more information about our programs, please email our Client Coordinator here.
See the new spring menu here.
Home Delivered Meals
Our friendly volunteers deliver two nutritious prepared meals each day, one hot and one cold, to our home bound clients. Deliveries are made Mondays through Saturdays including holidays between 11:30 am and 1:30 pm . Our delivery area includes the communities north of Chicago to the Wisconsin state line and west to the western edge of Lake County.
The meals are prepared fresh every day by our kitchen staff and volunteers and delivered by volunteer delivery drivers, who perform an informal well check and socialization as they deliver. This important wellness check provides a set of eyes and ears that can assist clients who may need additional help or who are experiencing an emergency.
Congregate Meal Sites
NILES CAFE
Niles Cafe, 1000 Civic Center Drive, Niles, IL
Our Niles Cafe is located inside of the Niles Senior Center. You do not need to be a member of Niles Senior Center to attend.
The Cafe is open Mondays - Fridays (excluding holidays) from 11:30am - 12:30pm and offers the amazing menu options our home delivered meal clients love. A hot entree with sides, beverage, and roll are included with a suggested donation of $2 per meal. We also offer a cold to-go meal for later as a part of our Home Delivered Meals program at $8 per meal. Subsidies are available if needed. You will not be denied a meal due to inability to pay. On site registration is available.
Animeals
We provide free pet food for Home Delivered Meal program recipients on a weekly basis through a partnership with the Evanston Animal Shelter. Pets get the food they need and our clients, many of whom are socially isolated, benefit from interaction with our pet-loving volunteers.
We are also able to utilize donations of cat litter, cat and dog food, new or gently used collars, leashes, bedding, toys, scratching posts, etc. All donations can be dropped off at our offices.
This program is exclusively available for Home Delivered Meal recipients.