Free Coffee For Frontliners At Starbucks In Crystal Lake, Cary

CRYSTAL LAKE, CARY, IL — Front-line workers can get free coffee throughout December from Starbucks locations across the United States, including six in Crystal Lake and Cary.

Starbucks has locations at:

• 40 North Williams Street, Crystal Lake
• 5580 Northwest Highway, Crystal Lake (Target)
• 6000 Northwest Highway, Crystal Lake
• 105 Northwest Highway, Crystal Lake (Mariano's)
• 1125 S. Route 31, Crystal Lake
• 620 Northwest Highway, Cary

In a statement, Starbucks said it 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.