The parish of St. Nicholas was started in 1906 with the purchase of a small wood frame church. As new members came in, the pastor started looking for land to build a bigger church and found a lot on the corner of Oakley Boulevard and Rice Street.…
St. Michael's Church in the Old Town neighborhood of Chicago is a Roman Catholic church staffed by the Redemptorist order of priests. The parish was founded to minister to German Catholic immigrants in 1852 with its first wooden church completed that…