St. Ambrose Catholic Church
St. Ambrose Catholic Church is a Catholic church at 1012 East 47th Street in Chicago, IL 60653. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 92 Catholic congregations in the city.
1012 East 47th Street, Chicago, IL, 60653St. Ambrose Catholic Church is part of the Catholic family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,063 congregations of the Catholic family gather across Illinois — 19,012 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 St. Ambrose Catholic Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 4 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line. Nearly a quarter of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and about 1 in 10 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 households stretched past their means, and for this church to know their names.
- Child Poverty: 43.3% (24.8–60.5%)
- Food Insecurity: 27.1%
- Unemployment: 12.9% (4.3–21.5%)
- Social Isolation: 36.3%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.0%
- Poverty Rate: 26.5% (17.4–35.6%)
- Housing Insecurity: 22.6%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 15.8%
- Diabetes: 15.0%
- Obesity: 38.6%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 22.0%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.2%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 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 St. Ambrose Catholic Church
- Goshen Sda Worship Center — 0.1 mi away
- Kenwood United Church of Christ — 0.1 mi away
- Church of God — 0.1 mi away
- Pleasant Gift Missionary Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Hyde Park Seventh-day Adventist Church — 0.2 mi away
- Croatian Franciscans of the Holy Family Custody — 0.2 mi away
- New Community Covenant Church Bronzeville — 0.4 mi away
- New Life Covenant Oakwood Church — 0.4 mi away
- Glorious Light Church — 0.4 mi away
- Ellis Avenue Church — 0.4 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church — 0.9 mi away
- Holy Angels Catholic Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church — 1 mi away
- Saint Augustines Cathedral — 1.8 mi away
- Saint Anselm Catholic Church — 2.1 mi away