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)

St. Simon's Evangelical Lutheran Church

The mission congregation in the western side of the Humboldt Park district purchased two lots on the northwest corner of Pierce and Sheridan (later named Spaulding) Avenues. A small brick church building (pictured below) was completed by December 1890.

The congregation's financial situation was hampered by the depression of the 1890s, but by 1899 had completed the church building (pictured at left).

The original brick church was sold to St. Peter's English Evangelical Lutheran Church and moved one block south to Spaulding and LeMoyne, where it served as church and later parish hall for many years.

St. Simon's added a parish house in 1916. The church was remodeled in 1929.

English services were held every Sunday beginning in 1915.

In 1965 St. Simon's merged with St. Peter's (1895, General Council) to form Simon Peter Lutheran Church at 1540 N. Spaulding Ave. Simon Peter disbanded in December 1991.

Original brick church, ca. 1890

Pastor C.W. Knudten and confirmation class, ca. 1915

Original records
Original record books for St. Simon's are located at the ELCA Region 5 Archive in Dubuque, Iowa. The ELCA Archives congregational histories and other materials relating to St. Simon's.

Sources
St. Simon's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Chicago, Ill. Diamond Anniversary Book, 1964.