Northern Illinois District (LCMS)

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The Northern Illinois District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers the northern third of the state of Illinois, including the Chicago metropolitan area; the rest of the state is divided between the Central Illinois District and the Southern Illinois District. In addition, 21 congregations in the Chicago area (13 of them in the city itself) are in the non-geographic English District, and five congregations in Northern Illinois (including one in Chicago) are in the SELC District. The Northern Illinois District includes approximately 237 congregations and missions, subdivided into 28 circuits, as well as 117 preschools, 77 elementary schools and 8 high schools. Baptized membership in district congregations is approximately 144,000, second to only the Michigan District; the average congregation size of 607 members is the highest of any Synod district.

The Northern Illinois District was formed in 1907 when the Illinois District was divided. District offices are located in Hillside, Illinois; the Rev. Dan Gilbert became the district president in September 2006 [1]. Delegates from each congregation meet in convention every three years to elect the district president, vice presidents, circuit counselors, a board of directors, and other officers; the last convention was held on June 23-25, 2006, and the next will be held in 2009.

Concordia University Chicago in River Forest, Illinois, part of the LCMS' Concordia University System, is located within the district.

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[edit] Presidents

  • Rev. Hermann Engelbrecht, Sr., 1907–09
  • Rev. William Christian Kohn, 1909–13
  • Rev. Friedrich Heinrich Brunn, 1913–27
  • Rev. Alex Ullrich, 1927–36
  • Rev. Ernest Theodore Lams, 1936–45
  • Rev. Arthur Henry Werfelmann, 1945–60
  • Rev. Theodore F. Nickel, 1960-62
  • Rev. Carl L. Abel, 1962-63
  • Rev. Erwin L. Paul, 1963–66
  • Rev. Edmund H. Happel, 1966–85
  • Rev. Theodore L. Laesch, 1985-97
  • Rev. William H. Ameiss, 1997-2006
  • Rev. Dan P. Gilbert, 2006-present

[edit] Oldest congregations

[edit] Largest congregations

Membership totals are c. 2006.

[edit] Congregations and missions

Congregations established prior to 1930, or having 600 or more members, are noted (membership figures are c. 2006); in the absence of one or both of these within a circuit, the oldest and/or largest congregation is noted.

Circuit 1 (Lake County)

Circuit 2 (North Suburban Cook County)

Circuit 3 (Near Suburban Northwest)

Circuit 4 (Far Suburban Northwest)

Circuit 5 (Dundee/Elgin)

Circuit 6 (McHenry County South & East)

Circuit 7 (McHenry County North & West)

Circuit 8 (South Central Suburban)

Circuit 9 (North Central Suburban)

Circuit 10 (Mid Central Suburban)

Circuit 11 (DeKalb)

Circuit 12 (Rockford/Belvidere)

Circuit 13 (Freeport Northwest)

Circuit 14 (Sterling/Rochelle)

Circuit 15 (North Chicago)

Circuit 16 (Chicago Central)

Circuit 17 (Chicago/West Suburban)

Circuit 18 (La Grange/Brookfield)

Circuit 19 (Chicago/Southwest Suburban)

Circuit 20 (Oak Lawn)

Circuit 21A (Chicago South & East)

Circuit 21B (Chicago South & East)

Circuit 22 (Lisle/Naperville)

Circuit 23 (Aurora)

Circuit 24 (Chicago Heights)

Circuit 25 (Tinley Park/Orland Park)

Circuit 26 (Joliet and West)

Circuit 27 (Beecher)

Circuit 28 (Far South)

[edit] External links

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