The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children — commonly called WIC — has seen an overall 17% decline in participation in Illinois despite the eligibility rate ...

In Illinois that year, 44.2% of families who qualified for WIC were not enrolled. Currently, only slightly more than a third of eligible 419,000 participants in the state are signed up ...

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, commonly referred to as WIC, provides monthly grocery benefits to almost 6.6 million mothers and children up to age 5 ...