Saint Jerome's Croatian Catholic Church
Saint Jerome's Croatian Catholic Church is a Roman Catholic church at 2823 South Princeton Avenue in Chicago, IL 60616. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 134 Roman Catholic congregations in the city.
2823 South Princeton Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60616Saint Jerome's Croatian 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 Jerome's Croatian Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. Nearly a quarter 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 2,600 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: 27.5%
- Social Isolation: 36.8%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 33.3%
- Diabetes: 17.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 24.2%
- Poverty Rate: 20.3% (10.6–30.0%)
- Housing Insecurity: 15.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.0% (4.5–19.5%)
- Unemployment: 6.8% (0.8–12.9%)
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.
Churches near Saint Jerome's Croatian Catholic Church
- Santa Lucia Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- Allen Temple African Methodist Episcopal Church — 0.3 mi away
- Liberty Union Baptist Church — 0.3 mi away
- New Life Community Church in Bridgeport — 0.3 mi away
- All Saints-St. Anthony Parish — 0.4 mi away
- Victory Bible Church — 0.4 mi away
- Jacobs House Church — 0.4 mi away
- Chinese Christian Union Church — 0.4 mi away
- Skyscraper Ministries — 0.4 mi away
- St. James Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Santa Lucia Catholic Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. James Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- St. Therese Chinese Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint Barbara Roman Catholic Church — 1 mi away
- Monastery of the Holy Cross — 1 mi away