First Baptist Church of Waukegan
First Baptist Church of Waukegan is a Baptist church at 401 North Genesee Street in Waukegan, IL 60085. It is one of 105 churches in Waukegan, and one of 5 Baptist congregations in the city.
401 North Genesee Street, Waukegan, IL, 60085Service times
10:30am, 12:30am (esp) (as listed)
Website: http://fbcwaukegan.org/
First Baptist Church of Waukegan is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 2,210 congregations of the Baptist family gather across Illinois — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
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The community around First Baptist Church of Waukegan
Within a few blocks of these doors, more than 2 in 10 households aren't sure there will be enough to eat. More than a third of adults live with obesity, and about a third of adults say they are socially isolated. That is 2,200 neighbors — and some of them are already in these pews.
Pray for the tables that run short before the month does, and for this church's table to be long.
- Food Insecurity: 28.9%
- Obesity: 41.2%
- Social Isolation: 35.6%
- Child Poverty: 30.9% (13.4–48.5%)
- Lack of Social/Emotional Support: 30.5%
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 26.0%
- Housing Insecurity: 23.6%
- Uninsured Adults 18-64: 21.3%
- Poverty Rate: 21.8% (11.6–32.0%)
- Diabetes: 14.5%
- Transportation Barriers: 13.4%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.4%
- Uninsured All Ages (Census): 12.9% (7.0–18.9%)
- Unemployment: 6.8% (2.5–11.0%)
Source: CDC PLACES, U.S. Census Bureau (2023, 2019-2023), aggregated across 5 census tracts near this church.
Waukegan city is served by 38 churches — about one congregation for every 2,641 residents.
Churches near First Baptist Church of Waukegan
- First Christian Church — 0.1 mi away
- First Congregational Church — 0.2 mi away
- North Shore Church of Christ — 0.2 mi away
- Christian Faith Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Saint Nikolas Serbian Orthodox Church — 0.2 mi away
- Newlife Ministries in Christ Church — 0.2 mi away
- New Life Fellowship Church — 0.2 mi away
- Christ Episcopal Church — 0.2 mi away
- Immaculate Conception Roman Catholic Church — 0.3 mi away
- First Church of Christ Scientist — 0.3 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Waukegan Community Church — 0.7 mi away
- Immanuel Baptist Church — 0.7 mi away
- Pleasant Grove Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church — 1 mi away
- Mt Zion Missionary Baptist Church of Waukegan, IL — 1.1 mi away