First Community Baptist Church
First Community Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Chicago, IL 60636. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 489 Baptist congregations in the city.
Chicago, IL, 60636First Community Baptist Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,174 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,418 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 First Community Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,200 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: 45.2%
- Obesity: 45.1%
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.8%
- Poverty Rate: 32.2% (16.0–48.5%)
- Unemployment: 30.6% (19.3–42.0%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 24.4%
- Diabetes: 20.6%
- Child Poverty: 40.0% (21.4–58.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 21.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 11.7% (4.0–19.3%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 7 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near First Community Baptist Church
- Holy Nazarene Rescue Mission — 0.1 mi away
- Center of Hope Ministries for the Chosen, Inc. — 0.1 mi away
- Prayer Tower Church of God in Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Word & Holy Ghost Apostolic Faith Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Birth Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Gethsemane Church of God in Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Travelers Rest Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Atonement Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Rock of Ages Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
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- Greater Rock of Ages Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Chapel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- The Lebanon Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Shiloh Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away