Saint Barbara Roman Catholic Church
Saint Barbara Roman Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 2855 South Throop Street in Chicago, IL 60608. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 134 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
2855 South Throop Street, Chicago, IL, 60608Website: http://www.stbarbarachicago.org/Church/Bingo.htm
Saint Barbara Roman Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,056 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Illinois — 18,927 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.
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The community around Saint Barbara Roman Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about a third have no one they feel they can count on. That is 2,400 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: 28.6%
- Social Isolation: 36.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 32.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.3%
- Housing Insecurity: 18.3%
- Poverty Rate: 17.8% (8.4–27.2%)
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 15.0%
- Diabetes: 14.9%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 3 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near Saint Barbara Roman Catholic Church
- Grace Lutheran Church — 0.1 mi away
- Monastery of the Holy Cross — 0.3 mi away
- Trinity United Church-Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Cross Lutheran Church — 0.4 mi away
- Central Assembly of God Church — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Mary of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Park Church Bridgeport Campus — 0.5 mi away
- Victory Outreach City Church Chicago — 0.5 mi away
- St John's Spred — 0.6 mi away
- Victory Bible Church — 0.6 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Monastery of the Holy Cross — 0.3 mi away
- Saint Mary of Perpetual Help Roman Catholic Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Jerome's Croatian Catholic Church — 1 mi away
- Holy Trinity Croatian Catholic Church — 1 mi away
- Santa Lucia Catholic Church — 1 mi away