Progressive Baptist Church
Progressive Baptist Church is a Baptist church at 3658 South Wentworth Avenue in Chicago, IL 60609. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 489 Baptist congregations in the city.
Progressive Chicago is honored to guide new and existing believers in the next steps of their faith and equip them as they discover what it means to be followers of Jesus.
3658 South Wentworth Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60609Service times
- Sunday 7:30am
Phone: (773) 268-6048 · Website: https://www.progressivechicago.org/
Progressive 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.
Ministries at Progressive Baptist Church
- PBC Kids
- Encore Ministry
- Summer Discipleship
- PBC Teens Discipleship Program
- Black Boy Literacy Campaign
- Connection Institute
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Upcoming events at Progressive Baptist Church
- Sun, Sep 27 · 9:30 AM: Sunday Service — Progressive Baptist Church, 3658 S Wentworth Ave., Chicago, IL 60609
From Progressive Baptist Church's public calendar (https://www.progressivechicago.org/). Times are the church's local time.
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The community around Progressive Baptist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of the people here live below the poverty line, and more than a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,300 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 46.3%
- Poverty Rate: 43.8% (29.0–58.6%)
- Social Isolation: 40.9%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 35.1%
- Housing Insecurity: 34.7%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 33.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.2%
- Transportation Barriers: 22.7%
- Unemployment: 22.7% (9.8–35.7%)
- Diabetes: 19.5%
- Obesity: 43.1%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 13.6%
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 Progressive Baptist Church
- Voice in the Wilderness M.B.C. — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Thomas Episcopal Church — 0.4 mi away
- Crusaders Church — 0.5 mi away
- Solid Rock Church — 0.5 mi away
- Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ — 0.5 mi away
- Indiana Avenue Pentecostal Church of God — 0.5 mi away
- Nativity of Our Lord Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- AFC Church — 0.6 mi away
- Apostolic Faith Church — 0.6 mi away
- Prayer Band Pentecostal Church — 0.6 mi away
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- Liberty Union Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
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- South Park Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Tabernacle Baptist Church — 0.8 mi away