St. Malachy + Precious Blood
St. Malachy + Precious Blood is a Catholic church at 2248 West Washington Boulevard in Chicago, IL 60612. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 115 Catholic congregations in the city.
2248 West Washington Boulevard, Chicago, IL, 60612Website: https://www.archchicago.org
Shares a ministry location with Blessed Maria Gabriella.
St. Malachy + Precious Blood 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 St. Malachy + Precious Blood
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 about 1 in 7 the workforce is looking for work and not finding it. That is 2,400 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: 28.6%
- Unemployment: 15.0% (5.2–24.7%)
- Social Isolation: 37.6%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Poverty Rate: 28.4% (17.1–39.7%)
- Housing Insecurity: 24.3%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 16.5%
- Obesity: 38.3%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 21.4%
- Transportation Barriers: 14.2%
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 St. Malachy + Precious Blood
- Blessed Maria Gabriella — 0 mi away
- Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Greater Bethlehem Healing Temple — 0.2 mi away
- Greater Bethlehem Baptist Church — 0.2 mi away
- St. Andrew's Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- St Luke Church of God In Christ — 0.3 mi away
- Gospel Temple Missionary Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Greater Union Baptist Church — 0.4 mi away
- Pilgrim Rest Missionary Baptist Church — 0.5 mi away
- Jackson Boulevard Christian Church — 0.5 mi away
More Catholic churches nearby
- Precious Blood Roman Catholic Church — 0.6 mi away
- Holy Rosary Catholic Church — 0.7 mi away
- Saints Volodymyr and Olha Catholic Church — 0.8 mi away
- Saint Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral — 0.9 mi away
- Saint Helen Catholic Church — 1.1 mi away