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Christian dating in Chicago
Nineteen counties, three states, and the only proper rapid transit system in the Midwest. Chicago is one of the few big American cities where you can meet someone without either of you owning a car.
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Faith in the city
A city of parishes, and of everything that came after them
Chicago is a Catholic city at heart. Roughly three in ten adults across the metro are Catholic, and the Archdiocese of Chicago counts something like two million of them. That parish life was built by Irish, Polish, Italian and Lithuanian families, and is now shaped just as much by Mexican and other Latino communities. Alongside it, the Great Migration produced one of the most influential historically Black Protestant traditions in American Christianity, rooted on the South and West Sides.
Evangelical institutions are unusually strong here for a big city — Moody Bible Institute sits downtown and Wheaton College is out in the western suburbs. Hyde Park holds a rare cluster of theological schools within a few blocks of each other, Catholic, Lutheran, Presbyterian and university-based, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is headquartered in the city. There is also a deep Orthodox and Eastern Christian presence, Greek, Serbian, Ukrainian and Assyrian among others.
Meeting up
Where a first meeting actually works
From spring through autumn the lakefront does most of the work for you: miles of continuous public shoreline with a trail running along it, and no reason for either of you to spend money before you know whether you like each other. In February you will want somewhere indoors and warm, and Chicago is generous about that too.
Easy places to say hello
- Chicago Riverwalk — downtown pedestrian promenade along the river
- Millennium Park — free downtown park with public art and gardens
- Garfield Park Conservatory — large free glasshouse on the West Side, good in winter
- Lincoln Park Zoo — free lakefront zoo and conservatory, open year-round
- Chicago Botanic Garden — out in Glencoe, in the northern suburbs
Distance
North Side, South Side, or forty minutes on the Metra
This is the one Midwest metro where dating without a car is genuinely normal. Two of the CTA lines run around the clock, and eleven Metra lines reach the city and most of the established suburbs. If you both live near a station, distance matters far less than it looks on a map.
Suburb to suburb is a different story and almost always means driving. And the North Side, the South Side and the far western suburbs function as separate pools in practice — a trip from a north-suburban town down to the South Side can comfortably pass an hour each way. Worth a moment's thought before you widen your search radius.
Also within reach
- Evanston — directly north, 30 to 45 minutes by Purple Line or Metra
- Oak Park — about 20 minutes west by Green Line or Metra
- Naperville — 35 miles west, 40 to 55 minutes on the Metra BNSF
- Aurora — 40 miles west at the end of the BNSF line
- Schaumburg — 30 miles northwest, driving only
- Northwest Indiana — just over the state line, about 40 minutes southeast
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