Our Lady of the Holy Family parish was created by the combination of the former Notre Dame de Chicago and Holy Family parishes on the near west side. The latter of these two was later returned to the Jesuits from the archdiocese and it now serves as a chapel to St Ignatius College Prep as well as a site for weddings, baptisms and funerals.
I’ve seen the dome of Notre Dame de Chicago many times while driving down the Congress Expressway but never made it to Mass there until this morning. It is interesting/amusing to note that the church is literally a block and a half away from another Catholic church, Our Lady of Pompeii,¹ which is a relic of the old Chicago division of parishes by ethnicities (Notre Dame de Chicago was historically a French parish while Our Lady of Pompeii was and still is an Italian parish).
- Back around the turn of the century, I attended Our Lady of Pompeii sporadically.
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