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Morning Star Baptist Church of Chicago
Chicago's landmark record gives Morning Star Baptist Church of Chicago a stable base for work on religious architecture, congregational history, and the longer public life of the site.
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Quick Take
- Official status: Chicago individual landmark.
- Address: 3993 S. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive.
- Built: 19121-1968.
- Architect: .Wheelock, Bailey,Hunter, Konn & Duster.
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Why It Matters
Morning Star Baptist Church of Chicago keeps a real place attached to religious architecture, congregational history, and immigration and neighborhood change.
From there, the building can be read through design, use, later change, and neighborhood context instead of remaining a detached image or isolated fact.
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Research Narrative
Landmark Context
Morning Star Baptist Church of Chicago is anchored to 3993 S. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive before any deeper archive work begins. Even in summary form, the record keeps together a construction date of 19121-1968 and credits .Wheelock, Bailey,Hunter, Konn & Duster. Morning Star Baptist Church of Chicago keeps religious architecture, congregational history, and immigration and neighborhood change grounded in a real building even when the public record is brief.
Morning Star Baptist Church of Chicago reveals more once fieldwork compares entry hierarchy, towers, and symbolic facade work, parish or congregational buildings nearby, and later reuse, subdivision, or adaptive change. That kind of reading often reveals how worship, community identity, and later reuse remain visible in the building.
Research Starting Points
Morning Star Baptist Church of Chicago is easiest to push beyond designation through congregational records, permit files, and historic photographs and neighborhood reporting. Those records help separate what the landmark file says from what the longer building history actually shows.
Morning Star Baptist Church of Chicago still needs deeper source work, but the landmark record already keeps that work tied to one place.
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Campaign / Petition Record
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19121-1968
Development
Construction period recorded in city landmark data
by Public record Previous
Chicago's public landmark data records Morning Star Baptist Church of Chicago as built in 19121-1968.
February 2026
Inventory
City landmark address list and data portal record
by Public record Current
Morning Star Baptist Church of Chicago remains listed in Chicago's public individual-landmark address list and open-data record.
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Source Trail
City of Chicago Open Data: Individual Landmarks
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Chicago Landmark Address List February 2026
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Place Snapshot
- Place
- Morning Star Baptist Church of Chicago
- Location
- 3993 S. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive, Chicago, Illinois
- Coverage
- Exact
Key Facts
- Region
- Chicago, Illinois / Midwest
- Place type
- Campus / Institutional
- Current status
- Preserved
- Address
- 3993 S. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive
- Built
- 19121-1968
- Architect
- .Wheelock, Bailey,Hunter, Konn & Duster
Design / Planning Timeline
.Wheelock, Bailey,Hunter, Konn & Duster
19121-1968
Milestone
Design architect or firm credited in current city landmark data
Use as a starting point for confirming authorship against permits, drawings, and later landmark reports.
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