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Established May 19, 1851, on the northwest corner of Dearborn and Madison streets. The church was moved to Peck Court and Wabash streets in 1857. In 1867, the need for a larger church caused a new building to be built on Wabash Avenue between fourteenth and fifteenth streets. On September 26, 1915, Grace Episcopal Church burnt to the ground. For the next ten years, worship was conducted in the Parish House. In 1928, a new church building was erected at 1450 S. Indiana Avenue. The church moved again in 1966 to its current church building at 33 West Jackson Street.

Established February 6, 1906, on the north side of Grace Church at the Wabash between 14th and 15th street location. Destroyed along with the church in 1915.

Originally started by Philander Chase, this is one of the oldest churches in Illinois. It was originally named Zion Parish Episcopal Church in 1850. The church was consecrated in 1953 and the name was changed to Grace around 1889. The present church is in the third building with the two previous having been destroyed.

The oldest church in continuous use in the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago. Parish until around 1930s, then a mission until 2003 when it was returned to Parish status.

Formerly of the Diocese of Quincy.

*In 2009 Grace Church left the protestant Episcopal Church to join the Anglican Church in North America. It remains open to date as an ACNA church.

Started meeting together in 1868 but did not petition to become a parish until 1877. The church continues in New Lenox, IL until today (2023).

Grace was founded as a mission in 1879 and quickly grew to an organized parish by 1881. The congregation had outgrown its first home, a small wooden Gothic building on Forest Avenue, by 1895, when they bought land on Lake Street for the current building. Grace Church broke ground for the present building in 1901, and the nave was completed in 1905. Thereafter, the congregation continued to build according to the original 1898 blueprints until the church and its interior appointments were completed in 1967.

The church building was built in 1873 and the church was an organized mission in 1875. The church went through ups and downs finally closing in 1962. The cemetary was put in the hands of a separate organization and still exists as an historical site.