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  2. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Illinois

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    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Illinois refers to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and its members in Illinois.The official church membership as a percentage of general population was 0.44% in 2014. [3]

  3. Deseret Industries - Wikipedia

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    Deseret Industries (/ ˌ d ɛ z ə ˈ r ɛ t / ⓘ) [1] (known locally as DI) is a non-profit organization and a division of the welfare services provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). DI thrift stores are similar to the well-known Goodwill Industries.

  4. Bishop's storehouse - Wikipedia

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    Granary building at the LDS Church's Welfare Square in Salt Lake City, Utah.Welfare Square began in 1938 as a bishop's storehouse. [1]A bishop's storehouse in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) usually refers to a commodity resource center that is used by bishops (lay leaders of local congregations analogous to pastors or parish priests in other Christian ...

  5. Deseret Book Company - Wikipedia

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    Deseret Book's downtown location remained the only store until 1959 when site for an Ogden, Utah branch was donated. Stores in Orange, California and Salt Lake County opened in malls in 1962. In the 1970s, the original location was torn down to make way for the ZCMI Center Mall where the store reopened on April 2, 1976, during a general ...

  6. Welfare Square - Wikipedia

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    Welfare Square was created in 1938, [2] under the direction of the Church's General Welfare Committee, which itself had been formed just two years earlier. [3] Throughout the 1930s and 1940s, as the United States was experiencing the Great Depression Welfare Square became the flagship of the Church's Welfare Program.

  7. Chicago Illinois Temple - Wikipedia

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    This included children donating pennies, young women making dolls for the temple nursery, and women crocheting and tatting altar cloths. Many hours were donated in helping with the public open house, held July 15 – August 3, 1985, during which over one hundred thousand people toured the temple. [9] Hinckley dedicated the temple on August 9, 1985.

  8. Visitors Center (Latter-day Saint) - Wikipedia

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    In 1893, the LDS Church participated in the Chicago World Columbian Exposition to counter the negative press it received. [8] The church also participated in World's fairs in Dresden (1930), Chicago (1933-34), San Diego (1935-36), San Francisco (1939-40), and others.

  9. Red Brick Store - Wikipedia

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    The Red Brick Store in Nauvoo, Illinois, was a building constructed and owned by Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Original building.