Refuge Chicago
Refuge Chicago is a Catholic church at 3223 West Franklin Blvd., Chicago, IL, 60624 in Chicago, IL 60624-1502. It is one of 2,495 churches in Chicago, and one of 112 Catholic congregations in the city.
Our mission is the Great Commission (Matthew 28:19-20). The way that gets fleshed out is through our vision: Becoming people of love through the work of Jesus Christ for the sake of others.
We are a multiethnic community of people located in Chicago who have been so changed by God’s love through the gospel of Jesus Christ that we want to grow deeper into that love, become people of love, so that we can share that love in Chicago and to the ends of the earth.
3223 West Franklin Blvd., Chicago, IL, 60624, Chicago, IL, 60624-1502Service times
Sundays at 10:00 AM (as listed)
Phone: (872) 314-3495 · Website: https://www.refugechi.com/
Refuge Chicago is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,057 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Illinois — 18,933 across the United States on The Church Map.
From the Catholic Church the whole body received the canon of Scripture, the creeds still recited every Sunday in traditions that never look to Rome, and monasteries that kept learning and Scripture alive through a thousand unlit years. Its parishes remain the largest network of schools, hospitals, and shelters in America, most of them serving people who will never attend a Mass.
Ministries at Refuge Chicago
- Children's Ministry
- Small Groups
- Serving Ministries
Find Refuge Chicago on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
Watch
Latest from Refuge Chicago's YouTube channel: Get Ready | November 1, 2026 | 10 AM | Refuge Chicago (all videos).
The community around Refuge Chicago
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 2,200 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: 48.6%
- Social Isolation: 41.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 37.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 36.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 35.7%
- Poverty Rate: 35.2% (19.8–50.5%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 26.8%
- Transportation Barriers: 23.6%
- Diabetes: 19.1%
- Unemployment: 13.2% (5.6–20.8%)
- Obesity: 45.0%
- Child Poverty: 35.0% (16.6–53.4%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 19.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.7% (3.9–21.7%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Refuge Chicago
- New Life Deliverance Baptist — 0.2 mi away
- New Tabernacle of Faith — 0.2 mi away
- Central Memorial Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Union Missionary Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Divine Providence Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Stephen AME Church — 0.4 mi away
- Philadelphia Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Ebenezer Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Lord of Host Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- New Greater Saint John Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
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- Holy Rosary Catholic Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Francis Cabrini Roman Catholic Church — 1.2 mi away
- Saints Volodymyr and Olha Catholic Church — 1.3 mi away