Summer Kelly, executive director of Mothers’ Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes, points to 100 mL containers of pasteurized donor milk at the nonprofit’s processing facility in Elk Grove Village. The bottom shelves contain new donations yet to be pasteurized. (Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer)
At the Elk Grove Village-based Mothers’ Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes, Executive Director Summer Kelly checks one of the multiple freezers that holds 100 mL containers of pasteurized, donated milk. She says the nonprofit has seen an uptick in demand for the milk, amid the nationwide baby formula shortage. (Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer)
Jose Zepeda, plant manager, and Mark Bannon, lab coordinator, at Mothers’ Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes, drop milk into water as part of the pasteurization process at a processing facility in Elk Grove Village. (Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer)
Summer Kelly, executive director of Mothers’ Milk Bank of the Western Great Lakes, said the Elk Grove Village-based nonprofit has seen a 20% increase in demand for donated milk as infant formula has become increasingly hard to find on store shelves. (Mark Welsh | Staff Photographer)
