Metropolitan Family Services

Metropolitan Family Services

(312) 986-4000

One North Dearborn
Chicago, IL - 60602


The mission of Metropolitan Family Services is "To provide and mobilize the services needed to strengthen families and communities." Founded in 1857 as the Chicago Relief and Aid Society, the agency assisted families when approximately one-fifth of the city's labor force was unemployed. Later the agency played a major role in the rehabilitation of the city after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 by administering $10 million that poured in to aid the families of Chicago and re-establish the business community.



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