First Congregational Church UCC
First Congregational Church UCC is a United Church Of Christ church at 256 East Chicago Street in Elgin, IL 60120. It is one of 89 churches in Elgin.
We’re a spiritual community with a long, rich, diverse heritage here in Elgin for 184+ years. We’re a church that is proudly progressive, intentionally inclusive, and authentically Christian.
Serving since 1836 · Accessible parking
256 East Chicago Street, Elgin, IL, 60120Service times
- Sunday 10:30am
Phone: (847) 741-4045 · Website: https://fcc-elgin.org/
First Congregational Church UCC is part of the Congregational family of churches in The American Church Story. 215 congregations of the Congregational family gather across Illinois — 2,930 across the United States on The Church Map.
The Congregational churches planted the first colleges in America — Harvard and Yale began as their ministers' training grounds — and launched the modern foreign-mission movement from a New England haystack. Their conviction that a gathered congregation can govern itself under Christ is now shared by most churches in the country.
Ministries at First Congregational Church UCC
- Children Ministry
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Latest from FCC Elgin's YouTube channel: FCC Worship ~ November 1st, 2026 ~ 10:30 A.M. (all videos).
The community around First Congregational Church UCC
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. About a third of households aren't sure there will be enough to eat, and nearly a quarter of working-age adults live without health insurance. That is 2,200 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: 30.7%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 23.0%
- Obesity: 41.5%
- Social Isolation: 37.0%
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.2%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 27.2%
- Housing Insecurity: 24.7%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 17.1% (11.9–22.3%)
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 14.1%
- Unemployment: 8.7% (4.4–13.1%)
- Child Poverty: 27.1% (10.9–43.3%)
- Poverty Rate: 17.3% (9.3–25.4%)
- Transportation Barriers: 14.4%
- Diabetes: 13.2%
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Elgin city is served by 46 churches — about one congregation for every 1,854 residents.
Churches near First Congregational Church UCC
- Iglesia Carismatica Puerta de Sion — 0 mi away
- Iglesia de Dios 7o Dia — 0 mi away
- Forest City Church — 0 mi away
- Church of the Redeemer — 0.1 mi away
- First United Methodist Church — 0.1 mi away
- Iglesia Principe De Paz — 0.1 mi away
- First Universalist Church — 0.1 mi away
- St. Joseph Catholic Church — 0.1 mi away
- Agape Iglesia Adventista Del Septimo Dia — 0.1 mi away
- Vineyard Church — 0.1 mi away
More Congregational churches nearby
- Zion United Church of Christ — 5.2 mi away in Carpentersville, IL
- Immanuel United Church of Christ — 5.6 mi away in Bartlett, IL
- Saint Paul's United Church of Christ — 6.6 mi away
- Congregational Church of Algonquin — 8.8 mi away in Algonquin, IL
- Congregational United Church of Christ — 10 mi away in Campton Hills, IL