Saint Simon Catholic Church
Saint Simon Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 5157-5159 South California Avenue in Chicago, IL 60632. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 115 Catholic congregations in the city.
5157-5159 South California Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60632Website: http://www.stsimontheapostlechurch.org/
Saint Simon 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 Simon Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. About a third of working-age adults live without health insurance, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor. That is 2,200 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: 39.0%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 32.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 31.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 30.6%
- Unemployment: 15.2% (8.1–22.4%)
- Social Isolation: 38.2%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 31.8%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.0% (10.9–23.1%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.2%
- Obesity: 36.6%
- Transportation Barriers: 16.6%
- Poverty Rate: 16.3% (8.9–23.7%)
- Diabetes: 14.2%
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 Simon Catholic Church
- Christ Gospel Church of Chicago-Roca Fuerte — 0.2 mi away
- Iglesia del Evangelio de Cristo — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Covenant — 0.3 mi away
- Dr Martin Luther Church — 0.3 mi away
- Tabor Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Christian Charismatic Church La Nueva Uncion — 0.4 mi away
- St. Clare of Montefalco Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- Amor y Fe Iglesia — 0.4 mi away
- Body of Christ M. B. Church — 0.5 mi away
- Saint Peter and Paul Russian Orthodox Church — 0.5 mi away
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- Saint Gall Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Lithuanian Jesuit Fathers Roman Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saint John's Polish National Catholic Church — 0.9 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church — 1 mi away