50-590: All Saints Cemetery is a cemetery of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago , and is located at 700 North River Road, in Des Plaines, Illinois . The original 1923 East cemetery was expanded in 1954 to include All Saints West. The cemetery includes a three-story community mausoleum containing space for thousands of above-ground interments. Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago The Archdiocese of Chicago ( Latin : Archidiœcesis Chicagiensis )
100-481: A financial settlement with the victims and survivors. In 1960, Meyer banned parishes from hosting bingo games in response to reports of corruption. In January 1961, during riots in the African-American Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago, Meyer made this statement: We must remove from the church on the local scene any possible taint of racial discrimination or racial segregation, and help provide
150-470: A small wooden church near Lake and State Streets . The first Catholic church in the city, it was dedicated in 1833. The next year, Bishop Simon Bruté of the new Diocese of Vincennes in Indiana, visited Chicago. He found only one priest serving over 400 Catholics. Brulé asked permission from Rosati to send several priests from Vincennes to Chicago. In 1837, Saint Cyr retired as pastor of St. Mary and
200-651: Is a Latin Church ecclesiastical jurisdiction, an archdiocese of the Catholic Church located in Northeastern Illinois , in the United States. The Vatican erected it as a diocese in 1843 and elevated it to an archdiocese in 1880. Chicago is the see city for the archdiocese. As of November 2024, Cardinal Blase Cupich is the archbishop of Chicago. The cathedral parish for the archdiocese, Holy Name Cathedral,
250-554: Is an east–west street in Chicago and part of its suburbs. A portion of Lake Street is designated as U.S. Route 20 . Lake Street begins in downtown Chicago and travels west to the eastern terminus of the Elgin Bypass around suburban Elgin . The street travels west through the city and then begins to travel in a northwest fashion through several suburbs. The street is a distance of roughly 34.4 miles (55.4 km). Lake street begins at
300-759: Is in the Near North Side area of Chicago. The archdiocese serves over 2 million Catholics in Cook and Lake counties, an area of 1,411 square miles (3,650 km ). The archdiocese is divided into six vicariates and 31 deaneries. An episcopal vicar administers each vicariate. The archdiocese is the metropolitan see of the Province of Chicago. Its suffragan dioceses are the other Catholic dioceses in Illinois : Belleville, Joliet, Peoria, Rockford, and Springfield. Cardinal Joseph Bernardin , archbishop of Chicago from 1982 to 1996,
350-522: The American Midwest . In 1833, Jesuit missionaries in Chicago wrote to Bishop Joseph Rosati of St. Louis, pleading for a priest to serve the 100 Catholics in the city. In response, Rosati appointed Reverend John Saint Cyr. a French priest, as the first resident priest in Chicago. Saint Cyr celebrated his first mass in a log cabin on Lake Street in 1833. At a cost of $ 400, Saint Cyr constructed St. Mary,
400-591: The CTA Green Line tracks in the middle. It passes through Garfield Park and continues east toward downtown Chicago. It crosses railroad tracks and the CTA tracks then elevate as they are part of the Chicago "L" system. It intersects major streets in Chicago and has a partial interchange with the Kennedy Expressway and Interstates 90 and 94 . It then continues east and ends at Stetson Avenue. Most of Lake Street
450-495: The Diocese of Brooklyn , appointed by Pope Benedict XV on December 9, 1915. Almost half the Chicago population was Catholic by the 1920s. For decades, the parishes had been building and running their own schools, employing religious sisters as inexpensive teachers. The languages of instruction were often German or Polish. On taking office, Mundelein centralized control of the parish schools. The archdiocesan building committee now picked
500-447: The Diocese of Buffalo as the next archbishop of Chicago. In 1905, Quigley asked Reverend John De Schryver, a professor at St. Ignatius College Prep in Chicago, to organize St. John Berchmans Parish for Belgian Catholics. Quigley also established parishes for Italian and Lithuanian immigrants. "Chicago's urban parishes flourished as an important spiritual, cultural, and educational component of Chicago's life." Pope Pius X erected
550-561: The Diocese of Joliet in 1948, taking four counties from the Archdiocese of Chicago along with counties from the Dioceses of Rockford and Peoria. This created the current territory of the archdiocese. On December 1, 1958, a fire at Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago destroyed part of the school and killed 92 students and three nuns. While visiting survivors in the hospital and viewing
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#1732869875072600-426: The Diocese of Rockford in 1907, with 12 counties transferred from the Archdiocese of Chicago. In 1910, Quigley approached Reverend Francis X. McCabe, president of DePaul University , about the lack of higher education opportunities for Catholic women in the archdiocese. DePaul began admitting women the following year. Quigley died in 1915. The next archbishop of Chicago was Auxiliary Bishop George Mundelein from
650-1175: The Eisenhower expressway . Lake street has a lot of traffic lights while in Addison. and crosses over the Salt Creek and Illinois Route 83 (IL 83). Since a portion of Lake Street in Elmhurst has been replaced by the Eisenhower Expressway , US 20 runs on the Eisenhower for 0.97 mi (1.56 km), Lake St. continues on across from the interstate and US 20 continues on with I-290 and finds an exit to Lake st. It ends again before being continued on another ramp leading to its continuation in Stone Park . In Stone Park , Lake Street runs concurrent with US 20 and passes by more shopping centers. At Mannheim Road, Eastbound U.S. 20 turns south with U.S. Routes 12 and 45 . It continues east of Mannheim Road after US 20 leaves. It then crosses over
700-703: The Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest (ICKSP) announced the celebration of public masses and sacraments at Shrine of Christ the King Church , its headquarters in Chicago. The archdiocese had sent the ICKSP in 2021 its new regulations on the use of the traditional Latin Mass. As of 2024, 39 churches in Chicago and 21 in the surrounding suburbs have closed and the number of parishes has reduced from 344 to 216. In
750-499: The Metra 's Milwaukee District West Line ( Canadian Pacific Railway ) and meets the current western end of Illinois Route 390 (IL 390). After passing though more residential areas and shops, it enters Bloomingdale . Passing by shops ad gas stations, along with going through a forest, and passing by warehouses, it meets I-355 . Continuing east, Lake Street passes by shopping centers along with more residential areas while paralleling
800-728: The Potawatomi nation signed the Treaty of Greenville that ended the Northwest Indian War , ceding to the United States its land at the mouth of the Chicago River. In 1804, Pope Pius VI erected the Diocese of Baltimore , covering the entire United States. In 1822, Alexander Beaubien became the first person to be baptized as a Catholic in Chicago. By 1826, the Vatican had created the Diocese of St. Louis , covering Illinois and other areas of
850-585: The Second Vatican Council reforms in the archdiocese. Cody closed 27 schools as well as several parishes in inner city Chicago. In September 1981, the US Attorney's Office in Chicago announced an investigation of Cody over the diversion of over $ 1 million archdiocesan funds to Helen Dolan Wilson, whom Cody described as his step-cousin. That same week, the Chicago Sun-Times revealed that Wilson
900-671: The Union Pacific Railroad and it passes by more residential areas and has an intersection with Illinois Route 171 (IL 171). It turns east and parallels the Union Pacific Railroad, and passes through Maywood and River Forest before it intersects Illinois Route 43 in Oak Park , (IL 43) and Illinois Route 50 (IL 50). In South Austin , it ends crosses under the Union Pacific and continues southeast with
950-461: The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago "Archbishop Feehan believed a strong system of Catholic education would solve the problem of inconsistent religious instruction at home, and unify a rapidly diversifying Catholic America." He also brought the Vincentians to Chicago to start what is now DePaul University . After Feehan died in 1902, Leo XIII in 1903 named Bishop James Quigley from
1000-403: The 1950s, Chicago-area Catholics spoke of which churches they attended and identified themselves via these churches. University of Notre Dame professor Kathleen Sprows Cummings stated that knowing one's church revealed demographic information and that it "was an identifier, almost more identifiable than the particular neighborhood that they lived in." Lake Street (Chicago) Lake Street
1050-665: The City of Chicago proposed a new route for the June 2012 Chicago Pride Parade , a celebration by the LGBTQ community. However, the archdiocese objected to the new route, saying the parade would pass by Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church during Sunday morning mass. George told an interviewer: "you don't want the Gay Liberation Movement to morph into something like the Ku Klux Klan , demonstrating in
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#17328698750721100-531: The Diocese of Chicago. Foley died in 1879, In 1880, the Vatican elevated the Diocese of Chicago to the Archdiocese of Chicago. At that time, it transferred five more counties to the Diocese of Peoria. Pope Leo XIII named Bishop Patrick Feehan from the Diocese of Nashville as the first archbishop. From 1880 to 1902, the Catholic population of Chicago nearly quadrupled to 800,000, mainly due to immigration. While
1150-584: The Franciscans, Vincentians , Servites, Viatorians , and Resurrectionist religious orders to establish parishes and schools in the diocese. In 1876, disagreements between Foley and Mother Mary Alfred Moes of the Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate of Joliet led her to relocate her order to Minnesota. In 1877, the Vatican erected the Diocese of Peoria , taking several counties in Central Illinois from
1200-669: The French-Canadian and Native American Catholics in the region were under the jurisdiction of the bishop of the Diocese of Quebec in New France. With the end of the French and Indian War in 1763, the British took control of Illinois. Their rule ended after the American Revolution in 1783 when the British ceded Illinois and other Midwestern territories to the new United States. In 1795,
1250-698: The House of the Good Shepherd in Chicago as a residence for "delinquent women". After Duggan returned from the Second Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1866, he began to exhibit sign of mental instability. When he left Chicago for a European trip, several diocesan priests wrote to the Vatican, questioning Dugan's mental health. Three years later, in 1869, Pius IX sent Duggan to a sanitarium in St. Louis and appointed Monsignor Thomas Foley as coadjutor bishop to operate
1300-636: The Sacraments in December, Cupich imposed restrictions on the celebration of the traditional Latin mass in the archdiocese. He banned the usage of the Traditional Rite on the first Sunday of every month, Christmas , the Triduum , Easter Sunday, and Pentecost Sunday . In 2021, the archdiocese announced plans to combine 13 parishes into five clusters, to minister to regions south of Chicago. On August 1, 2022,
1350-569: The Society of Jesus as the second bishop of Chicago. During his brief tenure in Chicago, Van de Velde built two elementary schools, a night school for adults, an employment office, and a boarding house for working women. After the 1849 cholera outbreak in Chicago, he established residences for the many children orphaned by the epidemic. Van De Velde opened the Illinois Hospital of the Lakes in 1851,
1400-706: The archdiocese was closing 37 churches and schools. After Bernadin died in 1996, John Paul II appointed Archbishop Francis George from the Archdiocese of Portland in Oregon as the eighth archbishop of Chicago, George was the first native Chicagoan to become its archbishop. In 2011, George terminated the foster care program of Catholic Charities in the archdiocese. The State of Illinois had ruled that it would not fund any charities that refused to consider same-sex couples as foster care providers or adoptive parents. George refused to comply with this requirement. In 2911,
1450-583: The archdiocese. Quarter invited the Sisters of Mercy to come to Chicago in 1846. Over the next six years, the sisters founded schools, two orphanages and an academy. One of their projects was the St. Xavier Female Seminary, a secondary school that attracted students from wealthy Catholic and Protestant families. St. Mary of the Lake University, the first university or college in Chicago, opened in 1846. Quarter died on April 10, 1848. On October 3, 1848, Pope Pius IX appointed Reverend James Van de Velde of
1500-564: The archdiocese. In 2016, increasing costs, low attendance at mass and priest shortages prompted the archdiocese to close or consolidate up to 100 parishes and schools over the next 15 years. On December 27, 2021, following the issuing of the motu proprio Traditionis custodes in July and the subsequent issuing of guidelines released by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of
1550-574: The confidence of the clergy and the laity." Within a few months of his arrival in Chicago, Bernadin had spoken personally to every priest in the archdiocese. He also prepared and released an audit of the archdiocesan finances. During the 1983 mayoral election campaign in Chicago, the African-American Congressman Harold Washington faced bitter opposition from the Chicago political machine. Bernadin urged Chicago Catholics to reject racist attacks against Washington; when he
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1600-533: The deceased in the city morgue, Meyer was overcome with grief. In 1959, the National Fire Protection Association report on the fire criticized the archdiocese for "housing their children in fire traps". The report noted that the archdiocese continued to operate schools with inadequate fire safety standards. The archdiocese faced $ 44 million in lawsuits from the families of fire victims and survivors. After six years of negotiations, Meyer agreed to
1650-695: The diocese, the aftereffects of the financial panic of 1857 , and of the American Civil War . German Catholics were hostile to an Irish bishop. Irish-born priests were hostile to Dugan's stand against the Fenian Brotherhood : he denied the sacraments to anyone tied to this secret society. Some clergy faulted Duggan for failing to support the University of St. Mary of the Lake , which closed in 1866 due to financial problems and low enrollment. In 1859, Dugan founded
1700-516: The diocese. In 1870, a Jesuit educator, Reverend Arnold Damen , established St. Ignatius College in Chicago. In October 1871, the diocese suffered nearly a million dollars in property damage in the Great Chicago Fire , including the destruction of St. Mary's Cathedral. In 1875, Foley dedicated the new Cathedral of the Holy Name in Chicago, designed by architect Patrick Keely . Foley invited
1750-701: The end on the Elgin Bypass and intersection of Shales Pkwy and Bluff City Blvd. US 20 comes from the Elgin bypass onto Lake St. It then crosses the Canadian National Railway and has a traffic light with a suburban road. It then gradually climbs a hill and has another traffic light with car dealerships on the left side when facing east. It then passes by some residential areas and has an interchange with Illinois Route 59 (IL 59). After passing through more residential areas and some warehouses, it crosses under
1800-460: The existing Irish and German communities expanded, Polish, Bohemian , French-Canadian, Lithuanian , Italian, Croatian, Slovak and Dutch Catholics arrived in the archdiocese, bringing their own languages and cultural traditions. During his tenure as archbishop, Feehan founded 140 new parishes. Fifty-two of them were national parishes serving particular ethnic communities, staffed by religious orders from their home countries. The parishes provided
1850-453: The first bishop of Chicago. On his arrival in Chicago, Quarter summoned a synod of the 32 priests to begin the organization of the diocese. Quarter secured the passage of a state law in 1845 that declared the bishop of Chicago an incorporated entity, giving him the power to hold real estate and other property in trust for religious purposes. This law would allow Quarter and future prelates to construct churches, colleges, and universities in
1900-578: The first hospital in Chicago. Suffering from severe rheumatism during the harsh Chicago winters, Van De Velde persuaded the pope in 1852 to appoint him as bishop of the Diocese of Natchez in Mississippi. The Vatican erected the Diocese of Quincy in 1853, taking Southern Illinois from the Diocese of Chicago. The Diocese of Quincy later became the Diocese of Alton and then the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois. On December 1853, Reverend Anthony O'Regan
1950-571: The locations for new schools while its school board standardized the school curricula , textbooks, teacher training, testing, and educational policies. In 1926, the archdiocese hosted the 28th International Eucharistic Congress . Mundelein died in 1939. To replace him, Pope Pius XII named Archbishop Samuel Stritch from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee . After Stritch died in May 1958, Pius Xll appointed Archbishop Albert Meyer of Milwaukee as archbishop of Chicago on September 19, 1958. Pius XII erected
2000-426: The moral leadership for eliminating racial discrimination from the whole community. After Meyer died in 1965. Pope Paul VI appointed Archbishop John Cody from the Archdiocese of New Orleans as the next archbishop of Chicago. During his tenure in Chicago, many priests and lay people criticized Cody for an autocratic management style. The Association of Chicago Priests censured Meyer in 1971 for failing to advance
2050-415: The new immigrants with familiar fraternal organizations, music, and language, safe from xenophobia and anti-Catholic discrimination. In 1881, Feehan established the St. Vincent Orphan Asylum and in 1883 the St. Mary's Training School for Boys. They were followed in 1887 with the founding of St. Paul's Home for Working Boys. A strong supporter of Catholic education, Feehan promoted it with an exhibition at
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2100-449: The opposition he faced in the diocese, O'Regan submitted his resignation in 1857 to the Vatican, which accepted it in June 1858. The pope appointed Bishop James Duggan of St. Louis as the apostolic administrator of the diocese. On January 21, 1859, Pius IX named Duggan as the fourth bishop of Chicago. Duggan faced challenges in Chicago: the legacy of the decade-long lack of leadership in
2150-425: The parade start by two hours, allowing it to pass by Our Lady after its mass concluded. Two weeks later, George apologized for his remarks. George died in 2014. Pope Francis named Bishop Blaise Cupich from the Diocese of Spokane as the next archbishop of Chicago. Cupich announced a major reorganization of the archdiocese in 2015. Approximately 50 archdiocesan employees accepted early retirement packages offered by
2200-464: The streets against Catholicism." In response, LGBTQ advocates called for George's resignation, but George said: "When the pastor's request for reconsideration of the plans was ignored, the organizers invited an obvious comparison to other groups who have historically attempted to stifle the religious freedom of the Catholic Church." City administrators negotiated a compromise plan that delayed
2250-527: The winter became the first European settlement in the area. Marquette published his survey of the new territories and soon more French missionaries and settlers arrived. In 1696, a French Jesuit, Reverend Jacques Gravier , founded the Illinois mission among the Illinois, Miami , Kaskaskia and others of the Illiniwek confederacy in the Mississippi River and Illinois River valleys. During this period,
2300-613: Was appointed as the third bishop of Chicago by Pius IX. During his tenure, O'Regan purchased property for the construction of several churches and Calvary Cemetery in Chicago. A systematic administrator and strong disciplinarian, O'Regan generated significant dissatisfaction among his clergy. Many French-speaking congregants accused him of stealing their property. In 1855, the Sisters of the Holy Cross founded an industrial school in Chicago for girls, both Catholic and non-Catholic. Frustrated by
2350-414: Was arguably one of the most prominent figures in the American Catholic church in the post- Vatican II era, rallying progressives with his "seamless garment ethic" and his ecumenical initiatives. The first Catholic presence in present-day Illinois was that of a French Jesuit missionary , Reverend Jacques Marquette , who landed at the mouth of the Chicago River on December 4, 1674. A cabin he built for
2400-442: Was elected, Bernadin met with Washington the day after the election. In 1984, Bernadin began the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago, the successor group to the Chicago Conference on Religion and Race. The archdiocese also established covenants with the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago in 1986 and with the Metropolitan Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1989. In 1990, Bernadin announced that
2450-509: Was on the archdiocesan payroll, but had no discernable duties. Cody denied all charges of wrongdoing. When Cody died in 1982, the official investigation was terminated. Pope John Paul II in 1982 chose Archbishop Joseph Bernardin of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati as Cody's replacement. Bernardin found an archdiocese in disarray, its priests disheartened by arbitrary administration and charges of financial misconduct under Cody. "With his patient charm and willingness to listen, Bernardin won back
2500-486: Was replaced by Reverend James O'Meara. He moved St. Mary to another wooden structure at Wabash Avenue and Madison Street . When O'Meara left Chicago, Saint Palais demolished the wooden church and replaced it with a brick structure. Pope Gregory XVI erected the Diocese of Chicago on November 28, 1843. It included all of the new State of Illinois, taking territory from the Dioceses of St. Louis and Vincennes. In 1844, Gregory XVI named Reverend William Quarter of Ireland as
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