57th Street Meeting of Friends
57th Street Meeting of Friends is a Quaker church at 5615 South Woodlawn Avenue in Chicago, IL 60637. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 2 Quaker congregations in the city.
5615 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL, 6063757th Street Meeting of Friends is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story.
Ministries at 57th Street Meeting of Friends
- Meeting for Worship
- Pre-Meeting Singing
- Potluck Dinner
- Meeting for Worship with a Concern for Business
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The community around 57th Street Meeting of Friends
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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 5 the people here live below the poverty line. That is 2,700 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.
- Social Isolation: 36.7%
- Poverty Rate: 19.6% (12.0–27.2%)
- Unemployment: 8.0% (2.1–13.9%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 6 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near 57th Street Meeting of Friends
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- Saint Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Cornerstone Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Rockefeller Memorial Chapel — 0.3 mi away