Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
Pleasant Grove Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 2857 West Lexington Street in Chicago, IL 60612. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 489 Baptist congregations in the city.
2857 West Lexington Street, Chicago, IL, 60612Shares a ministry location with Pilgrim Rest Missionary Church.
Pleasant Grove 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 — 71,417 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 Pleasant Grove 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. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and more than a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. That is 2,100 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: 41.2%
- Food Insecurity: 38.7%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 31.9%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 21.6%
- Unemployment: 12.9% (5.5–21.0%)
- Obesity: 42.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.7%
- Poverty Rate: 26.5% (17.3–36.0%)
- Transportation Barriers: 18.7%
- Diabetes: 15.4%
- Child Poverty: 26.9% (21.8–39.9%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.2%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 13.0% (3.1–23.0%)
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 Pleasant Grove Baptist Church
- Pilgrim Rest Missionary Church — 0 mi away
- Zion Travelers Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Saint Francis Cabrini Roman Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Unity MB Church — 0.1 mi away
- Word for the World — 0.1 mi away
- The Holy Trinity Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Life In Christ Ministries — 0.1 mi away
- Light House Gospel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Zion Travelers Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- The Holy Trinity Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Light House Gospel Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Mount Zion Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Mars Hill Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away