The Milan Exchange April 22, 1880

There are now in Chicago 213 churches, besides twenty mission chapels, and eleven Adventist and Spiritualist societies. Of the 213 churches the Catholics have the largest number, thirty-four.  The Baptists are next with twenty-four. Then come the Evangelical Lutherans at twenty-four, the Methodists with nineteen, the Presbyterians with eighteen, and the Episcopalians, Congregationalists, and Hebrews, each with ten.