EDITOR'S NOTE, May 4, 2023: WBBM previously reported that the Chicago City Council approved renovations for the Greenstone United Methodist Church. This information, based off of a press release from the Office of the Mayor, was later discovered to be incorrect. City Council did not approve the renovations. The story has been updated. WBBM regrets the error.
CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Chicago City Council failed to approve funding for a South Side church that’s more than 140 years old and is in need of exterior renovations.
Greenstone Church was built on 112th Street and St. Lawrence Avenue in the Pullman neighborhood in 1882 and has a 92-foot steeple. According to the National Park Service, the church’s sanctuary has remained largely unchanged with its cherrywood altar and pews, most of the original stained glass and the original pipe organ.
The church, though, is in apparent need of some outside work — more than $2 million worth.
If approved, the funding would have been used to repair and reclad the green, New England stone on the church’s belltower, which has been deteriorating from weather conditions.
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