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Original church destroyed in Chicago Fire. Closed in 1994; reopened; saved by protest of Latino community in 1996.
W. Lexington Street and South Clinton Street

St. Peter's Church was organized originally in 1846 as the first German parish in the city of Chicago. Later during the pastorate of Father Leander Conley O.F.M. in 1942, the Woods Theatre (located at Randolph and Dearborn) building was bought to…

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…