God In Chicago

I exit Lake Shore Drive and pass by the gleaming new Marriott hotel, the stately Hyatt hotel, and the massive McCormick Place convention center. I pull up to a quiet, semi-industrial stretch of Wabash Avenue. An ‘L’ train passes by on the elevated tracks a block away.At this intersection, there’s a brick warehouse with brick-filled windows. Alternate colored bricks along the window bays mark where the original windows once were.The parking lot next to the brick warehouse is cordoned off by a chain link fence, which has the words Pray for Peace affixed to it. Small construction equipment and vehicles are parked in the parking lot across the street.Standing proudly at this same intersection is my destination, a stone, cathedral-like structure. It seems to serve as a marker to a time way before this part of the city looked like it does today. Three bell towers form the street-facing corners of the building. A large set of vertical stained glass windows rest in the middle of the building’s exterior facade.Two old