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Vernon Hills, Illinois · summer 2026 (last summer)
Free Summer Meals for Kids in Vernon Hills, IL
4 summer 2026 meal sites in Vernon Hills, with the sponsor, address, dates and meal times each one published to USDA.
These are last summer's sites
Need food for your kids now? Call the USDA National Hunger Hotline at 1-866-3-HUNGRY (1-866-348-6479), Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Eastern, or check the official USDA Summer Meals Site Finder. The list below is the summer 2026 season, which ended on September 30, 2026. These sites are not listed as open now, and the dates and meal times are from last summer, not a schedule for this year or next summer. Sites for the next summer are usually announced in the spring.
Eat on-site · Open to all kids
Hawthorn Sch of Dual Language
810 N Aspen Dr, Vernon Hills, IL 60061
Sponsor: Hawthorn CCSD 73 · Seamless Summer Option
- Ran Jun 8 to Jun 26, 2026, Mon to Fri: Breakfast 8:20am-8:35am
To confirm the meal times, please contact the site directly.
Site phone: (847) 990-4900
Eat on-site · Open to all kids
Hawthorn Sch of Dual Language
841 W End Ct, Vernon Hills, IL 60061
Sponsor: Hawthorn CCSD 73 · Seamless Summer Option
- Ran Jun 8 to Jun 26, 2026, Mon to Fri: Breakfast 8:20am-8:35am
To confirm the meal times, please contact the site directly.
Site phone: (847) 990-4900
Eat on-site · Open to all kids
John Powers Center
201 W Hawthorn Pkwy, Vernon Hills, IL 60061
Sponsor: Spec Educ Dist Lake County/Sedol · Seamless Summer Option
- Ran Jun 16 to Jun 30, 2026, Mon to Thu: Breakfast 9:00am-9:30am
To confirm the meal times, please contact the site directly. - Ran Jul 1 to Jul 16, 2026, Mon to Thu: Breakfast 9:00am-9:30am
To confirm the meal times, please contact the site directly.
Site phone: (847) 986-7000
Eat on-site · Open to all kids
ROE Alternative Prog of Lake Co
300 Center Dr Ste 300, Vernon Hills, IL 60061
Sponsor: Spec Educ Dist Lake County/Sedol · Seamless Summer Option
- Ran Jun 2 to Jun 17, 2026, Mon to Fri: Breakfast 9:00am-9:30am, Lunch 12:00pm-12:30pm
To confirm the meal times, please contact the site directly.
Site phone: (847) 543-7833
SUN Bucks in Illinois
USDA's 2026 map showed Illinois as participating in SUN Bucks (Summer EBT). See the Illinois details.
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Source:
USDA Food and Nutrition Administration Summer Meals Site Finder (
public data layer), a list that local sponsors give to state agencies and states submit to USDA. Season 2026, serving dates Apr 1, 2026 to Sep 30, 2026, data last updated by USDA Sep 9, 2026. We show spellings, dates, days, meal times, addresses and phone numbers as published and do not check them; late changes may be missing. SUN Bucks (Summer EBT) status is from
USDA's participation page, last updated Aug 14, 2026. Sites that deliver meals, closed sites and sites that are not open to the public are not listed, and Puerto Rico and the other territories are not included here. To report a wrong listing, contact your state agency. A listing is not an endorsement.