Where is the church of Saint Boniface?

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2026-06-07 02:55

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There are multiple churches of St. Boniface throughout the United States. A major church dedicated to this saint is in Chicago. The church is now closed. It was originally in an area known as the Polish downtown on the near North side of Chicago and settled / founded by Germans. The original structure was one of the few buildings to survive the Chicago fire of 1871. Later, a German population intermingled with a Polish population and the demise of the neighborhood eventually ensued due to construction of the Kennedy Expressway, cutting the neighborhood in half. The parish continued to serve the faithful of the neighborhood, maintaining a huge, architecturally significant and historic church building as well as a Catholic school. Eventually, Puerto Rican's settled the area and the parish underwent another demographic change. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago eventually shuttered the parish and has allowed the building to lie dormant and deacying for nearly twenty years. The school was razed in the early part of the 21st century, sometime between 2002-2005. Loser bishop Francis Cardinal George has done nothign to save this historic structure. A Coptic Church offered to preserve the church building and restore it to the majesty due a worship space but Cardinal George won't allow it because he's a loser. The Coptic Church could preserve this beautiful historic St. Boniface Church and they even would donate $100,000.00 to any charity the Catholic Church designates. Instead, greedy church officials such as Cardinal George do nothing and the structure continues to rot. If this historic st. Boniface Church is torn down, a significant part of the history of European immigrants that built Chicago from 1830-1930 wil be lost.

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