General Synod (1820-1918)

Northern Illinois Synod
(1910 map)
Advent
Ascension
Augsburg
Calvary English
Christ English
Cuyler
Grace English
Hope
Luther Memorial (Ravenswood)
Mt. Zion
People's
Reformation
Rogers Park English
St. Andrew's English
St. James' (Logan Sq.)
St. Mark's Ger.-English
St. Paul's
Tabor
Trinity (Cent. Ill.)
Unity
Woodlawn Immanuel

Wartburg Synod
Bethel German
St. Simon's German
Trinity German (Holy Trinity)

Cuyler English Evangelical Lutheran Church

Work began in the spring of 1900 to organize Lutherans in the Cuyler and Gross Park neighborhoods of Chicago by Rev. C.G. Stacy. Cuyler was organized in September and purchased a chapel from a Methodist congregation. This building was rededicated on November 25, 1900.

The Gross Park mission was organized as St. Andrew's English Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1901. Rev. Stacy concentrated his efforts on Cuyler after that congregation was organized.

In 1912, as both mission congregations were struggling, Cuyler and St. Andrew's merged on the first of September to form the English Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Ascension.

Original records
Ascension disbanded on March 22, 1998. The original record books for Ascension, as well as possibly those for St. Andrew's and Cuyler, are located at the ELCA Region 5 Archives in Dubuque, Iowa.