Carmelite Monastery
Carmelite Monastery is a Catholic church at 949 North Des Plaines River Road in Des Plaines, IL 60016. It is one of 58 churches in Des Plaines, and one of 4 Catholic congregations in the city.
949 North Des Plaines River Road, Des Plaines, IL, 60016Carmelite Monastery 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 Carmelite Monastery
Within about a mile of this church, more than 2 in 10 renting households pay over half of everything they earn just to keep a roof over them. About a third of adults say they are socially isolated, and about 1 in 7 the people here live below the poverty line. That is two thousand 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.
- Social Isolation: 32.4%
- Poverty Rate: 16.7% (9.2–24.2%)
- Food Insecurity: 16.4%
- Unemployment: 7.3% (2.9–11.6%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Des Plaines city is served by 28 churches — about one congregation for every 2,496 residents.
Churches near Carmelite Monastery
- Cerrito del Tepeyac — 0.3 mi away
- Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe — 0.3 mi away
- Holy Family Convent — 0.7 mi away
- Korean Jang Sung Church — 0.9 mi away
- Oneness Church of Chicago — 0.9 mi away
- Baps Shri Swaminarayan Mandir,Bartlet,Il — 0.9 mi away
- Fountain of Life Chicago — 1 mi away
- St. Paul Chong Hasang Catholic Church — 1.1 mi away
- Cumberland Baptist Church — 1.1 mi away in Mount Prospect, IL
- Life Community Church, Mount Prospect, Illinois — 1.1 mi away in Mt Prospect, IL
More Catholic churches nearby
- Holy Family Convent — 0.7 mi away
- St. Paul Chong Hasang Catholic Church — 1.1 mi away
- Saint Emily Catholic Church — 1.2 mi away in Mount Prospect, IL
- St. Thomas Becket Church — 1.6 mi away in Mount Prospect, IL
- Saint Mary's Catholic Church — 2 mi away
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