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.

Written histories of the 57th Street Meeting of Friends, as well as Friends in Chicago, can be found on the Publications page.

5615 South Woodlawn Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60637

Service times

  • Sunday 10:30am
  • Sunday 10am

57th Street Meeting of Friends is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 9 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Illinois — 535 across the United States on The Church Map.

Friends were ahead of the whole church on abolition, on prison reform, and on the ministry of women, and they were ahead at real cost. Their practice of waiting on God together in silence is what the rest of the body borrows when words have run out.

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.

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