Religious Society of Friends

Religious Society of Friends is a Quaker church at 10749 South Artesian Avenue in Chicago, IL 60655. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 2 Quaker congregations in the city.

Northside Friends Meeting is a Meeting (chapter/church) of the Religious Society of Friends, also known as Quakers.

10749 South Artesian Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60655

Service times

  • Wednesday 8am
  • Sunday 10am

Religious Society of Friends is part of the Friends (Quaker) family of churches in The American Church Story. 9 congregations of the Friends (Quaker) family gather across Illinois — 535 across the United States on The Church Map.

Friends were ahead of the whole church on abolition, on prison reform, and on the ministry of women, and they were ahead at real cost. Their practice of waiting on God together in silence is what the rest of the body borrows when words have run out.

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The community around Religious Society of Friends

Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 15 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is two thousand 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: 31.0%
  • Unemployment: 7.2% (1.4–13.2%)

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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