Saying Goodbye to Our Lady of Victory and Hoping to Save an Architecturally Significant Building

BY ANDREW MORKES, AUTHOR OF NATURE IN CHICAGOLAND UPDATED 4/25/23 No parishioner should have to say goodbye to his or her church. But that’s what I’ve had to do twice in the last 20 or so years. Hope Lutheran Church, my childhood church, closed when I was in my early 30s, and Our Lady of …