Saint Francis De Paula Catholic Church
Saint Francis De Paula Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 1021 East 78th Street in Chicago, IL 60619. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 115 Catholic congregations in the city.
1021 East 78th Street, Chicago, IL, 60619Shares a ministry location with New Life Convenant.
Saint Francis De Paula 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 Francis De Paula Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 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 nearly half of adults live with obesity. That is 2,300 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: 51.8%
- Obesity: 48.0%
- Social Isolation: 41.5%
- Housing Insecurity: 39.8%
- Poverty Rate: 38.9% (26.0–51.8%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 37.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 36.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 30.4%
- Unemployment: 25.5% (16.6–34.5%)
- Transportation Barriers: 25.4%
- Diabetes: 21.2%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 14.9% (11.4–19.1%)
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 14.2% (7.0–21.3%)
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 Francis De Paula Catholic Church
- New Life Convenant — 0 mi away
- Grace Eden Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- New Gideon Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Helen Durhams Temple — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Covenant Church — 0.2 mi away
- Vernon Park Church of God — 0.3 mi away
- Precious Stone Bible Church — 0.3 mi away
- Ingleside-Whitfield United Methodist Church — 0.3 mi away
- Move Of God — 0.3 mi away
- Black Methodist for Church Renewal — 0.3 mi away
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