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Mar 14, 20201 min read
Preservationists Look to Protect Historic Tennis Club From Misericordia’s Expansion
Chicago-based Catholic charity Misericordia has been working to expand its campus that provides housing for those with developmental...
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Mar 14, 20201 min read
El Greco at the Art Institute of Chicago
The exhibition “El Greco: Ambition and Defiance” has opened at the Art Institute of Chicago, which partnered with the Louvre and the...
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Feb 29, 20201 min read
Saint Mary’s School Raises More than $1,300 for Nickel Plate Station
Saint Mary’s School students in Alton, Illinois raised $1,355 for The Nickel Plate Train Station restoration project. The project has...
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Feb 29, 20201 min read
23 Chicago-Area Parishes to Close, Merge
The Archdiocese of Chicago has announced another round of parish mergers that will close more than a dozen parishes across Chicagoland. ...
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Feb 29, 20201 min read
Bishop Rededicates Newly Renovated Church
After two years of planning and 10 months of work, Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki blessed the newly renovated Sacred Heart Church in...
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Jan 26, 20201 min read
Archdiocese of Chicago Closing More Schools
The Archdiocese of Chicago is closing Saint Colette in Rolling Meadows, Saint Jane de Chantal in Chicago, Saint Joseph in Round Lake,...
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Dec 14, 20191 min read
Saint Matthias Parishioners Fight to Keep Church Open in Face of Closure
Saint Matthias Church in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois has racked up $4.6 million in debt and will merge with...
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Dec 8, 20191 min read
Central Illinois Churches Avoid Demolition
Saint Philomena Catholic Church in Monticello, Illinois was purchased 25 years ago. Fourteen years later, the Steeple Coffee House and...
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Dec 7, 20191 min read
Preservationists Seeking to Protect Saint Adalbert's Convent
The Society of Saint Adalbert recently filed a request to consider a landmark designation for the former convent next to the Church in...
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Dec 7, 20191 min read
Historic Chicago Church Seeking Landmark Status
The Illinois Chicago Commission on Landmarks voted to grant preliminary landmark status to the Mount Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church...
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Dec 7, 20191 min read
Illinois Church Considers Renovations
Saint Hyacinth Church in La Salle, Illinois is considering work to its steeples and stained-glass windows. #LaSalle #Illinois #Catholic...
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Dec 7, 20191 min read
Tiffany Glass Windows Auctioned Off
Two sets of 140-year-old Tiffany stained-glass windows from Saint James Church in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago have been...
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Nov 28, 20191 min read
Saint Adalbert's Seeking Landmark Status
City Pads Chicago, a residential development firm, won a bidding war to buy Saint Adalbert from the Archdiocese for a reported $4...
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Nov 19, 20191 min read
Queen of Peace High School to be Demolished
The former Queen of Peace High School building in Burbank, Illinois is to be demolished. #Illinois #CatholicSchool #Demolition
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Oct 5, 20191 min read
Shrine Church of Christ the King Enters New Phase
Henry J. Schlacks’ Shrine Church of Christ the King (formerly the Church of Saints Clara and Gelasius) along Honorary Carmelite Way in...
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Oct 5, 20191 min read
On Saint Gabriel's Church in Chicago
Former Chicago Sun-Times architecture critic and active photographer, writer, lecturer, and consultant Lee Bay has recently released...
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