Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church

Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church at 1500-1520 West Elmdale Avenue in Chicago, IL 60660. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 125 Lutheran congregations in the city.

The community of Immanuel strives to be a living sanctuary of hope and grace.

Immanuel is a member congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) This is Christ’s church. There is a place for you here. We are the church that shares a living, daring confidence in God’s grace. Liberated by our faith, we embrace you as a whole person–questions, complexities and all. Join us as we do God’s work in Christ’s name for the life of the world.

1500-1520 West Elmdale Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60660

Service times

  • Sunday 10:30am

Phone: (773) 743-1820 · Website: https://immanuellutheranchicago.org/

Shares a ministry location with Chinese Christian Church and St Elias Christian Church.

Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church is part of the Lutheran family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,082 congregations of the Lutheran family gather across Illinois — 15,905 across the United States on The Church Map.

Lutherans put the gospel back into ordinary hands — Scripture in the language people actually spoke, and hymns the congregation itself was allowed to sing. That the church is saved by grace through faith, and that the whole assembly sings, are now the inheritance of nearly every Protestant church in America.

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Upcoming events at Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church

  • Mon, Sep 21 · 8 AM: FH/GYM: FTCNS Regular Classes
  • Mon, Sep 21 · 6:30 PM: OC: Edgewater Tutoring
  • Mon, Sep 21 · 6:30 PM: CP-Congregation Council — Chapel or Zoom
  • Tue, Sep 22 · 11:30 AM: SN: Immanuel Seniors
  • Tue, Sep 22 · 6:30 PM: OC/GYM: Edgewater Tutoring

From Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church's public calendar (https://immanuellutheranchicago.org/). Times are the church's local time.

The community around Immanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, and about 1 in 5 the people here were born in another country. That is 2,500 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.

Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.

  • Social Isolation: 31.6%
  • Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.3% (4.2–24.4%)

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.

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