Pastor giving out 40K eggs to help with ‘egg crisis' in Chicago
As egg prices soar due to the bird flu, a Chicago pastor is leading an effort to distribute 40,000 eggs to community members ...
Trinity Irish Dancers: From Chicago church basement to world-famous performers
Trinity Irish Dancers have been performing hundreds of times across the city each March since 1982, becoming a household name and a staple of Chicago’s Irish community.
Prayer vigil for Pope Francis to be held Thursday at Chicago Northwest Side elementary school
The vigil comes as doctors for the pope said he is no longer in imminent danger but is still expected to stay in the hospital for a few more days.
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Once anchored by a McDonald’s, 150-year-old Delaware Building tops Preservation Chicago’s most endangered list
Olivet Baptist Church at 3101 S. King Drive on March 4, 2025. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune) Located in the ...
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Influential bishops with Chicago ties will have a hand in picking the next pope
As Europe and the rest of the Western world have seen the number of Catholics drop, the Catholic church has been growing in Africa, Asia and South America. Chicago’s Catholic population remains ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright home, historic churches among Chicago’s 7 most endangered buildings, says Preservation Chicago
Frank Lloyd Wright home, historic churches among Chicago’s 7 most endangered buildings, says Preservation Chicago ...
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Influential bishops with Chicago ties will have a hand in picking the next pope
Francis has tapped Cupich for key appointments — to help select bishops and as one of 48 hand-picked attendees of a global synod discussing the church’s future. Chicago-born Wilton Gregory was ...
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St. Catherine of Siena-St. Lucy Church in Oak Park to close in June
After a town hall last October, it determined that “significant maintenance costs meant keeping St. Catherine of Siena-St. Lucy Church open was not sustainable,” the Archdiocese of Chicago sai ...
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Firefighter injured as Chicago fire truck crashes into church; union blames old equipment
CHICAGO – At least one firefighter was injured after a Chicago fire truck crashed into a church on the city’s South Side Friday, and the Chicago Firefighter’s Union said decades-old ...
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Elgin church’s drive-thru service offers convenient way to receive Ash Wednesday ashes
As it has done for the last several years, St. Hugh of Lincoln Episcopal Church in Elgin offered Christians a unique way to start the Lenten season by dispensing ashes via a drive-thru lane rather ...
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Fire truck crashes into food pantry at Chicago South Side church
CHICAGO (CBS) — A fire truck slammed into a food pantry located inside a church on the city's South Side. It happened Friday morning at West 103rd Street and South Morgan Street. Initial reports ...
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Oak Park church honors America's 1st Black Catholic priest who served in Chicago
OAK PARK, Ill. (WLS) -- An Oak Park church is honoring the life and legacy of a former Chicago priest during Black History Month. Father Augustus Tolton was the first Black Catholic priest in the ...