The city was founded in 1881, and five years later, "Rev. H. Spencer and the God-chosen few" met in a private home at the corner of North Third and Ash streets to organize Antioch C.M.E. Church.

The village board Wednesday is expected to designate the “Meeting House” at 977 Main St. (Route 83), an old church, as the first individual landmark in town based on historic and architectural ...

The extra-alarm fire destroyed the historic Antioch Missionary Baptist Church on Good Friday afternoon. ... One woman standing and watching had been going to the church since she was 10 years old.

Antioch Missionary Baptist Church held its Easter Sunday services at Calahan Funeral Home, 7030 S. Halsted St. ... The building was 128 years old. It was built in 1894.

He was recently named Senior Pastor of Hamilton United Methodist Church. “The church is 197 years old. They have never in its entirety had an African American pastor.

Such a torch set off the extra-alarm fire last Friday that has left the Englewood neighborhood’s 130-year-old Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, 6248 S. Stewart Ave., in ruins.