DuPAGE COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) -- Local food pantries in the Chicago area are already seeing more requests from people looking for help to feed their families and with SNAP benefits set to end this weekend. There's concern food assistance groups won't be able to meet the need.

Terry Roman, a truck driver with a disability, knows he won't go hungry Wednesday.

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But with SNAP food assistance benefits set to end this weekend, the 59-year old, who lives in a shelter, doesn't know what he'll do without the $292 he gets every month for groceries.

"I'm out of work pretty much right now. So I'm depending on that. I don't have much of an income. So it's like real vital to me," Roman said.

The DuPage County man is among the thousands of people o

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