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Merged with St. John's Cathedral in Quincy in 1949; building was secularized in 1959.

The congregation of Christ Church, Limestone was started in 1834. Philander Chase accepted Christ Church into the Diocese of Illinois in 1836 and in 1838 was accepted as a parish. The church building was consecrated in 1845 and the parish remained strong until the early 1900s. By 1924 there ceased to be regular services and by 1937 the church building was in serious disrepair and completely closed. In 1960 there was a move to reopen Christ Church and a congregation was revived as a mission parish in the Diocese of Quincy.

*In 2009 Christ Church left the protestant Episcopal church to join the Anglican Church in North America where it remains to date.

Hispanic Ministry was a ministry of Emmanuel Episcopal Church (Rockford, Ill). No information as to when the Hispanic Ministry began or ceased to exist.

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.

The Church of St. Paul and the Redeemer grew out of two nineteenth-century parishes that merged in 1968. in 1859, St. Paul's successfully applied to the Diocese to establish a parish and in 1889 had established The Church of the Redeemer as a daughter parish. A fire destroyed St. Paul’s Church in March 1956. The parish chose to remain on the same site rather than leave the neighborhood and the present building was dedicated in November 1958. In January 1968 the two congregations began worshipping together at St. Paul’s and shortly merge, becoming the Church of St. Paul & the Redeemer.

Started as Washington Park unorganized mission in 1905 and organized with name change to St. Edmund's in 1906 as a mission. Transitioned to a 'negro' church in 1928. all anniversary dates use 1928 as the start. School (aka Academy) opened in 1948, closed in 1988; reopened in 1995 and closed finally in 1999.

Became a parish in 1918. Has been in the same location since 1909. Fire in 2006 seriously damaged but did not destroy the church. Reopened in 2008.

Established in 1947, it is still an active church. In the 1990's, it shared space with Iglesia Episcopal San Felipe (Palatine, Ill), but the two never merged to form one bilingual congregation.