Two close calls and 150 years later, St. Stanislaus Kostka Church is still ... an icon for Polish-Americans. It was Chicago’s first Polish Catholic Church and reportedly survived the Great ...

St. Stanislaus Kostka Parish was the largest parish in the United States with 8,000 families, totaling 40,000 people. There were twelve Masses each Sunday: six Masses in the upper church and ...

WGN Morning News visited St. Stanislaus Kostka ... the church was originally built to minister to the Polish community, a large portion of immigrants that moved to Chicago at the turn of the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A West Town church is celebrating 150 years this weekend and still thriving after surviving a long list of challenges. There was the Chicago fire, and plans to demolish the church ...

The article concerning St. Stanislaus Kostka ... the church hierarchy. I am sorry to say that I am a Catholic. I attend mass only for the sacrament, not for guidance from a priest. A Chicago ...

ROCKFORD — The 2023 Polish Fest is right around the corner, and St. Stanislaus Kostka Church has been hard at work making homemade perogies. Some community members have been a part of Polish ...

The Kennedy Expressway bends east to spare the imposing St. Stanislaus Kostka Church. St. Stanislaus returns ... that have made the Reader a Chicago fixture for 50+ years. It costs about $53,000 ...

CHICAGO — Funeral services for former Congressman Dan Rostenkowski will be held at St. Stanislaus Kostka Church on Chicago's North Side. Church secretary Cristina Carrazco says the church will ...

Pope John Paul is no stranger to the parishioners of St. Stanislaus Kostka, the city’s largest ... that we’re the largest Polish church outside of Chicago and Wisconsin, we were hopeful ...

At first glance, the large sanctuary at St. Stanislaus Kostka church is striking ... was overruled on the closure of a church was in the early 1990s in Chicago. Herb Martin, a parishioner at ...

Since St. Stanislaus was closed in December 2008 and ordered to join with Notre Dame Parish, more than 200 parishioners have held a 24-hour vigil inside the church. That started on Dec. 26 and at ...