The Church of St. Mary in Lake Forest hosted a service day on June 8, 2019. Parishioners lent their time and talents to do yard work, paint, make blankets, write operation gratitude cards for soldiers, make name tags for Camp Hope, clean up parks, work at food pantries and volunteer at Feed My Starving Children.
Former St. Edmund School to house migrant families in Oak Park More than 100 migrants who had been staying at the Carleton of Oak Park Hotel and West Cook YMCA were expected to move into a temporary transitional family shelter in the former St. Edmund School building at the end of February.
Immaculate Conception School home to city’s oldest bowling alley The basement of Immaculate Conception School, 7211 W. Talcott Ave., is home to a 100-year-old bowling alley that is the oldest continuously operated alley in the city of Chicago. It earned that distinction when Southport Lanes closed in 2021.
Seminarians learn about poverty through immersion program Three seminarians from St. Paul Seminary in Minnesota spent three weeks at St. Mary of the Lake-Our Lady of Lourdes Parish, 4220 N. Sheridan Road, helping migrant families as part of an immersion program with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).