Entries followed by a call number refer to items in the Newberry Library. Items followed by an FHL film number refer to items held by the Family History Library in Salt Lake City; these items can be loaned to the Newberry for a small fee, or to any LDS Family History Center.
Denominational web sites may include historical data and directories of congregations.
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
This web site includes information about various Friends groups.
Church records, 1904-1937
Membership records available on microfilm from the Family History Library (See: "Chicago Churches and Synagogues-General-Archives" for more information):
FHL Film #1535522 Item 7
Membership list, 1904-1937
The Chicago Jewish Archives
Asher Library
Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
618 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60605
(312) 322-1741
The archives' holdings include the records and papers of many Chicago synagogues and religious organizations. A list is posted on the library's web site.
Bregston, Philip Pollack. Chicago and its Jews: A Cultural History. Chicago, 1933. Call #F 89621.J512
Brinkmann, Tobias. Von der Gemeinde zur "Community": Jüdische Einwanderer in Chicago, 1840-1900 (From "Gemeinde" to Community: Jewish Immigrants in Chicago, 1840-1900). Osnabrück, Germany: Rasch, 2002. Call # F548.9.J5 B75 2002
The Chicago Jewish Community Blue Book. Chicago: The Sentinel Pub. Co., 1918?. Descriptions and short histories of Jewish social and religious organizations. An index of persons mentioned in the articles includes some addresses. Call # F548.9.J5 C54.
Cutler, Irving. Jewish Chicago: A Pictorial History. Chicago: Arcadia, 2000. Call # F548.9.J5 C867 2000
Cutler, Irving. The Jews of Chicago: From Shtetl to Suburb. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996. Call # Folio F548.9.J5 C87 1996
Felsenthal, Bernhard. On the History of the Jews in Chicago. F 6187.292
Gutstein, Morris Aaron. A Priceless Heritage: The Epic Growth of Nineteenth Century Chicago Jewry. New York: Bloch Pub. Co., 1953. Call #F 6187.379
"History of Chicago Jewry." The Sentinal (Oct. 15, 1986). Includes histories of the Orthodox, Traditional, Conservative and Reform movements in Chicago. Call #Folio 548.9.J5 S3 1986
Meites, Hyman L., ed. History of the Jews of Chicago. Chicago: Jewish Historical Society of Illinois, 1924. Call#Folio SC2746
Meites, Hyman L., ed. History of the Jews in Chicago. Chicago: Chicago Jewish Historical Society, 1990. Call #Folio F548.9.J5 H57 1990
Price, Gloria, Tom Carroll. Synagogues of Chicago. Chicago: Chicago Jewish Historical Society, 1991. Call # Folio BM225.C4 S9 1991
The Sentinel Presents 100 Years of Chicago Jewry. Chicago: 1948. Call #F 6187.807
15 W. Delaware. Reform Movement.
Organized 1861 at Monroe between Clark and Dearborn. Later location on Plymouth Court, 21st and Indiana (destroyed by Chicago fire in 1871), 47th and Grand (1912), 53rd and Lake Shore Drive (1949). At present location since 1996.
Felsenthal, Bernhard. The Beginnings of the Chicago Sinai Congregation. Chicago, 1898. Call #F 6187.29
Felsenthal, Bernard, Herman Eliassof. History of Kehillath Anshe Maarabh: Congregation of the Men of the West. Chicago, s.n., 1897. Call #F 8962.17
Report of the Services in Commemoration of Twenty-Fifth Anniversary of the Introduction of Sunday Services in Chicago Sinai Congregation, January 15, 1899. Chicago: Ettlinger, 1899. Call # D 28962.1675
See also: Union
18 S. Michigan
Smith, Douglys F. One Hundredth Anniversary of the Central Church of Chicago, December 5. 1975. Chicago? Central Church? 1975? Call #Folio BX9999.C5 C46
Membership records available on microfilm from the Family History Library (See: "Chicago Churches and Synagogues-General-Archives" for more information):
FHL Film #1306186 Item 3
Church records, 1899-1902
Parot, Joseph John. Polish Catholics in Chicago, 1850-1920: A Religious History. DeKalb, Ill.: Northern Illinois University Press, 1981. Call # BX1418.C4 P37
8901 W. Higgins Road. Formerly located 2012 W. Dickens and then at 2019 W. Charleston.
History of All Saints Cathedral of the Polish National Catholic Church, Chicago, Illinois, 1895-1995. Chicago: All Saints Cathedral Parish, 1996. Call # BX4795.P634 C42 1996