West Ridge United Methodist Church
West Ridge United Methodist Church is a Methodist church at 2301 West Lunt Avenue in Chicago, IL 60645. It is one of 3,009 churches in Chicago, and one of 47 Methodist congregations in the city.
2301 West Lunt Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60645West Ridge United Methodist Church is part of the Methodist family of churches in The American Church Story. 1,029 congregations of the Methodist family gather across Illinois — 25,370 across the United States on The Church Map.
Methodism gave the church the class meeting, the circuit rider, and the Sunday school, and gave America the conviction that grace is genuinely for everyone — carried into prisons, mines, and mill towns by preachers who owned almost nothing. Charles Wesley's hymns are still sung in nearly every tradition, most of them by people who have no idea whose they are.
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The community around West Ridge United Methodist Church
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 3 in 10 adults say they are socially isolated. About 1 in 7 the people here live without health insurance, and nearly a quarter have no one they feel they can count on. That is 2,400 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the lonely within reach of this door, and for a congregation that notices.
- Social Isolation: 33.1%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 15.7% (7.3–24.2%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 26.1%
- Food Insecurity: 18.4%
- Unemployment: 6.8% (3.3–10.4%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 2 census tracts near this church.
Chicago city is served by 1,693 churches — about one congregation for every 1,580 residents.
Churches near West Ridge United Methodist Church
- God’s Battle Axe Prayer Ministry International — 0.1 mi away
- Bethesda Evangelical Lutheran Church — 0.3 mi away
- Glow Church — 0.3 mi away in Skokie, IL
- Sixteenth Church of Christ Scientist — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters — 0.3 mi away
- Gathering of The Saints — 0.4 mi away
- Holy Child Jesus Parish — 0.4 mi away
- Saint Margaret Mary Roman Catholic Church — 0.4 mi away
- The Northside Community Church — 0.5 mi away
- Warren Park Bible Fellowship Church — 0.5 mi away
More Methodist churches nearby
- United Church of Rogers Park — 1 mi away
- NewStory Chicago — 1.6 mi away
- Granville Avenue United Methodist Church — 1.6 mi away
- Hemenway United Methodist Church — 1.9 mi away in Evanston, IL
- NewStory Church — 2 mi away