{"id":227501,"date":"2025-09-15T01:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T01:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/227501\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T01:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T01:11:11","slug":"groundbreaking-ceremony-held-for-wicker-park-lutheran-church-renovations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/227501\/","title":{"rendered":"Groundbreaking ceremony held for Wicker Park Lutheran Church renovations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Renovations underway for Wicker Park Lutheran Church <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/5dcbd4d2fab474d2069cb70858210a11-0-1757897358863.png\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/video\/renovations-underway-for-wicker-park-lutheran-church\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>          Renovations underway for Wicker Park Lutheran Church<\/p>\n<p>          00:55<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of Wicker Park&#8217;s oldest and most iconic buildings is getting a renovation.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders of the Wicker Park Lutheran Church celebrated the start of the new construction project this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Built in 1906 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.<\/p>\n<p>The church has prided itself on its inclusivity and welcoming space.<\/p>\n<p>They said the campaign will make their building just as accessible.<\/p>\n<p>The theme for our construction project is &#8216;A Place for all,'&#8221; Rev. Jason Glombicki said. &#8220;We will both make the building ADA accessible with a new entryway and restrooms. And we will also restore the beauty of this 1906 landmark building.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The church raised $1.4 million for the project.<\/p>\n<p>A new elevator preservation of the church&#8217;s stained glass windows will also be included in the renovations.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/search\/author\/cbs-chicago-team\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS Chicago  Team<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">The CBS Chicago team covers breaking news, weather, groundbreaking investigations, and dedicated community reporting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Renovations underway for Wicker Park Lutheran Church Renovations underway for Wicker Park Lutheran Church 00:55 One of Wicker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":227502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,30573,5386,1818,15657],"class_list":{"0":"post-227501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-church","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-wicker-park"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115205654989920236","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}