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3747 E 111th St, Chicago Immaculate Conception (South Chicago) 2944 E 88th St, Chicago Our Lady of Guadalupe 3200 E 91st St, Chicago Sacred Heart Croatian: 2864 E 96th St, Chicago St Anthony 11544 S Prairie Ave, Chicago St. Columba 3340 E 134th St, Chicago Founded in 1884, closed in 2020 [78] St. Florian 13145 S Houston Ave, Chicago
Founded in 1882 as a Polish parish, Immaculate Conception was the first Polish parish in the working-class steel mill district of South Chicago, but it was divided three times to form the Polish parishes of St. Michael the Archangel, St. Bronislava and St. Mary Magdalene. The parish school operated from 1882 through 1982 when it closed because ...
Immaculate Heart of Mary (Spanish: Inmaculado Corazon de Maria) is a church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago located on South Ashland Avenue near 45th Street in Chicago, Illinois. The church was constructed more recently, compared other places of worship in the Back of the Yards area, such as St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church or Holy ...
Founded in 1892 as a Polish parish in Chicago to relieve overcrowding at Immaculate Conception. [2] Bishop Paul Peter Rhode, the first Polish auxiliary bishop in Chicago, served as pastor from 1897 until he was named bishop of Green Bay in 1915. The parish continued to serve Polish steel workers until the steel mills closed in the 1980s.
Other events, including a peace walk and an outdoor mass, were held to mark the occasion. [8] On February 10, 2019, the formal installation mass for the church's current pastor was held. [2] In 2021, the church was united with two nearby parishes, St. Michael and Holy Cross - Immaculate Heart of Mary, into Holy Cross and SS. Mary, Joseph, and ...
The church was completed in 1915, and the first mass celebrated in it occurred on Wednesday, September 15, 1915, the feast day of Our Lady of Sorrows. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] The parish fell on hard times in the 1970s after the closure of the stockyards, resulting in a merger with the neighboring parish of The Immaculate Heart of Mary.
Saint John Cantius Church (Polish: Kościół Świętego Jana Kantego) is a Latin Catholic church of the Archdiocese of Chicago.. With the other religious edifices of St. Mary of the Angels, St. Hedwig's or St. Wenceslaus, it is one of the many Polish churches that overlook the nearby Kennedy Expressway.
S. S. Peter & Paul (2938 East 91st Street) (Merged with St. Mary Magdalen and Immaculate Conception to form Jesus, Our Brother, building closed) (Jesus, Our Brother closed in 1994) Closed in 1985: St. George School (911 West 32nd Place) (Consolidated into Bridgeport Catholic Academy) [ 15 ]