Greater Star Baptist Church

Greater Star Baptist Church is a church at 4350 W 16th St in Chicago, IL 60623-1047. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago.

4350 W 16th St, Chicago, IL, 60623-1047

Phone: +17735654331 · Website: http://www.greaterstarbaptistchurch.org/

Greater Star 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 Star 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 half of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,500 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: 45.6%
  • Social Isolation: 41.6%
  • Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.2%
  • Housing Insecurity: 35.9%
  • Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.3%
  • Poverty Rate: 31.3% (18.3–44.4%)
  • Utility Shutoff Threat: 25.3%
  • Unemployment: 20.1% (12.2–28.1%)
  • Diabetes: 18.1%
  • Obesity: 44.6%
  • Transportation Barriers: 21.8%
  • Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (7.3–21.1%)

Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.

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