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Zion Congregational Church, organized in 1896, was also known as the Second German Congregational Church.\

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The history of Paul Congregational Church can be traced back Salem Congregational Church which was located north of Paul in the dry farm country of the Kimama district. Salem was organized in 24 March 1913. In 1925, Salem moved into Paul and changed its name to Zoar Congregational Church. In the early 1930s, a daughter congregation was formed north of the railroad tracks. It became known as Pilgrim Congregational Church. In 1936, these two congregations merged together again to form Ebenezer Congregational Church which today is called Paul Congregational Church.

Immanuel Lutheran Church in Paul, Idaho, had many Volga German members. This congregation no longer exists.

Now called Peace Church of Bellwood. The congregation is affiliated with the United Church of Christ.

Das Wolga Deutsche Evangelische Lutherische Zions Gemeinde von Maywood und Bellwood (Zion Lutheran Church of the Volga Germans) was organized by Rev. Gottfried Kempf, Mission Superintendent of the Wartburg Synod, on 29 November 1931. This congregation has disbanded.

St. Paul Lutheran Church in Dolton is affiliated with the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.

Original Location:

Lincoln Ave. near Cottage Grove
Dalton, Illinois

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St. John Lutheran Church was organized in 1916 in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Chicago.  The congregation was affiliated with the United Lutheran Church in America (ULCA).  It was dissolved in 1952. The building was eventually demolished.

Location

Argyle St. and Laramie Ave.
Jefferson Park (Chicago)

Our Lady of Victory Church was organized on September 10, 1906, as a mission of St. Edward parish. The Rev. Martin M. Lennartz cared for the small Catholic community, and celebrated Mass in a hall on the southeast corner of Milwaukee Avenue and Lawrence Avenue. In 1907 a cottage at 4741 N. Linder Avenue was acquired for use as a church. In March 1910, 20 lots at the present parish site were purchased, and construction began on a combination church-school building.

Deutsche Evangelish Lutherischen Eden Gemeinde (Eden German Evangelical Lutheran Church) was officially organized on 19 May 1914 by Volga German families in the Jefferson Park area of northwest Chicago. Johann Karl Kramer (born in 1882 in Krasnoyar) served as its first president.