Trinity United Methodist Church

1858:The pastor of the First Methodist Church of Chicago (now the Chicago Temple) organized a class and founded preaching in a frame house on Indiana Avenue near Twenty-Second Street in order to serve members of his flock who had moved to a remote southern suburb of Chicago, viz. From Eighteenth Street southward. 1862-64: During the dark years, assisted by the First Methodist Church, Trinity built its 1st church home on Indiana and Twenty-First Street. 1870: A new building was begun three blocks further S. After their own building had been destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, members of the Wabash Avenue Church united with Trinity. In the face of severe individual losses, the congregation went forward with the building of a new church.