Greater Union Baptist Church
Greater Union Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 1956-1958 West Warren Boulevard in Chicago, IL 60612. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 434 Baptist congregations in the city.
1956-1958 West Warren Boulevard, Chicago, IL, 60612Website: http://www.greaterunionchurch.org/
Greater Union 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.
Find Greater Union Baptist Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Greater Union Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. 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: 31.3%
- Unemployment: 13.4% (5.1–22.1%)
- Social Isolation: 37.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.3%
- Poverty Rate: 28.3% (16.9–39.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 25.0%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 17.0%
- Obesity: 38.8%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 15.1%
- Diabetes: 14.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Greater Union Baptist Church
- Gospel Temple Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Andrew's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- West Side Community Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Encounter — 0.3 mi away
- Blessed Maria Gabriella — 0.4 mi away
- St. Malachy + Precious Blood — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Bethlehem Healing Temple — 0.4 mi away
- First Baptist Congregational Church — 0.5 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Gospel Temple Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- First Baptist Congregational Church — 0.5 mi away
- Greater Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away