Free Coffee For Front-Line Workers At Starbucks In Highland Park

HIGHLAND PARK, IL — Front-line workers can get free coffee throughout December from Starbucks locations throughout the United States, including the five in Highland Park and Highwood.

Starbucks has locations in the area at:

• 1849 Green Bay Road, Highland Park, at Renaissance Place
• 2099 Skokie Valley Road, Highland Park, at the Target store
• 1833 Deerfield Road, Highland Park
• 2050 Skokie Valley Road, Highland Park
• 950 Sheridan Road, Highwood, at Old Elm Road

In a statement, Starbucks representatives said the company's stores will offer front-line workers a free tall brewed coffee, hot or iced, throughout the month as a way “to recognize the significant efforts of the front-line responder and health care community” during the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It has been an extraordinarily difficult year, especially for the front-line responders who are serving our communities,” Starbucks Vice President Virginia Tenpenny said in a news release. “We want to show our deep gratitude for those who support and protect us every day with a small gesture of kindness and a cup of coffee.”

Those eligible for the offer include doctors, nurses, public health workers, pharmacists, dispatchers, firefighters, paramedics, police officers, dentists and dental hygienists, mental health workers (therapists, psychologists, social workers, counselors, etc.), hospital staff such as janitors, housekeeping/security and active-duty military, according to Starbucks.

Customers will need to identify themselves as one of those workers in order to receive the free coffee.