Church of the Immaculate Conception, Chicago, outside view [Polish parishes and churches in Chicago]

The Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary was built according to the design of Martin A. Carr in the Renaissance style with Romanesque Revival elements. It was the first Polish church in the industrial district of South Chicago, where Poles began to settle in the early 1870s, when the area developed dynamically, providing numerous jobs in factories, steel works and
rolling mills.