Greater Pleasant Green Baptist Church
Greater Pleasant Green Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1557 West 115th Street in Chicago, IL 60643. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 434 Baptist congregations in the city.
1557 West 115th Street, Chicago, IL, 60643Greater Pleasant Green Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,210 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around Greater Pleasant Green Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the families one rent increase away from moving, and for this church to know their names.
- Food Insecurity: 29.9%
- Diabetes: 18.1%
- Social Isolation: 37.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.9%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 25.9%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.1%
- Obesity: 39.6%
- Poverty Rate: 17.9% (6.6–29.1%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.1%
- Unemployment: 7.2% (2.0–12.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Greater Pleasant Green Baptist Church
- God's House Holiness Church — 0.1 mi away
- HJC Holy Jerusalem Church — 0.1 mi away
- King's Dominion International Church — 0.2 mi away
- Lutheran Church of the Holy Spirit — 0.3 mi away
- Apostolic Pentecostal Church of Morgan Park — 0.3 mi away
- First Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Commending Love Church of God & Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Morgan Park Pentecostal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Arnett Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Universal Hagars Spiritual Church — 0.4 mi away
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- Pioneer Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away in Calumet Park, IL
- Beth Eden Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Hope Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away
- Mount Calvary Baptist Church — 0.6 mi away