St. James Catholic Church

About this church

St. James Catholic Church celebrates Sunday Mass at 9:30 a.m. in English and 1 p.m. in Spanish at 2907 South Wabash Avenue in Chicago. Weekday Mass is offered at 7:30 a.m. Monday through Friday in the rectory and on Zoom, while feast-day and holy-day liturgies are published at 9:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. in the church and online. Sunday worship ranges musically from Gregorian chant to gospel, reflecting the parish's joyful and culturally broad Catholic life.

The parish began when Bishop Anthony O'Regan established a church for twenty-five English-speaking Catholic families living near Illinois Central Railroad workshops in the Carville neighborhood. Today St. James connects sacramental life with visible South Side service. Its food pantry distributes groceries onsite from 9 to 11 a.m. Tuesday through Thursday and provides emergency help for clients with social-service referrals. Catholic campus ministry for Illinois Institute of Technology students offers community, worship, formation, and service through campus groups and regular communication. A first-time guest can choose Sunday Mass by language, attend a weekday liturgy remotely or in the rectory, and expect parishioners to notice and welcome visitors rather than leave them anonymous.

Researched from the church’s official website and reviewed August 26, 2026. Sources: Official worship page, Sunday English and Spanish Masses, welcome, chant, and go · Official parish history, Carville neighborhood, railroad families, bishop, and p · Official pantry-services page, Tuesday through Thursday distribution and emergen · Official campus-ministry page, IIT students, community, worship, formation, serv

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