A beloved church that's stood at the heart of Chicago's Ashburn neighborhood for more than six decades held its final Mass on Sunday morning. St. Thomas More Church was built in the late 1950s.

St. Thomas More Catholic Church, at 2825 W. 81st St. in the Ashburn neighborhood, held its final mass Sunday morning. The 67-year-old church was once a thriving parish.

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St. Thomas More Church was built in the late 1950s. Now, because of what the Archdiocese of Chicago has deemed declining membership, the church is closing its doors to parishioners.

Southwest Side St. Thomas More Catholic church will close next month. Meanwhile, the Pullman community raised money for Greenstone Methodist Church.

The 67-year-old St. Thomas More — a striking example of modernist Catholic ecclesiastical design — will hold its last liturgy on May 25 and will no longer function as a church after that.

The St. Thomas More parish was formed in 1938 and the brick church with limestone trim at Hawthorn Road and Old Elm Street was completed in 1940. The church was expanded in the early 1960s and ...

St. Thomas More was famously beheaded for treason by King Henry VIII on July 6, 1535, owing to his refusal to take the Oath of Supremacy and swear allegiance to the monarch as the Supreme Governor ...

Sebastian Saenz, a sophomore studying economics, said he always planned to attend church at St. Thomas More for Easter Sunday, but for senior Makenna Matayer, she said her normal plans carried a ...

St. Thomas More Catholic Church, at 2825 W. 81st St. in the Ashburn neighborhood, held its final mass Sunday morning. The 67-year-old church was once a thriving parish.