Lemont, SS. Cyril and Methodius Church [Polish parishes and churches in Chicago]

The church in Lemont is picturesquely located on a hill in Lemont, a village on the south-western outskirts of Chicago. The first polish settlers arrived here in the 1860s.
Fr. Leopold Moczygmeba began the foundation of the new parish in Lemont in the 1870s with the purchase of 20 acres of land located on a hill, which he called Jasna Góra.
The hill in Lemont has retained its distinctively Polish character. The patrons of the surrounding streets today are Sobieski, Ledóchowski, Czacki, Moczygemba.