Featured Charity: Pacific Garden Mission

 Featured Charity:  The Pacific Garden Mission - 1458 South Canal Street

Located in the Pilsen neighborhood at 1458 South Canal Street, the Pacific Garden Mission has been an institution in Chicago, helping serve the city's homeless for decades. Since its establishment in 1871, the Pacific Garden Mission has given the unfortunate a message of Christian hope and a warm bed. The Pilsen building is actually the Mission's fourth location; it was first established on South State Street by Colonel Clark and his wife, converting an old beer garden to what many would call “the doorway to heaven” and “God's Flophouse”. The Pacific Garden Mission's combination of evangelicalism and assistance proved to be a popular idea, as many missions emulating its ethos and methods popped up across the United States and Great Britain throughout the 1940s.

Today the Pacific Garden Mission's resolve has not wavered, and now at its Pilsen location it has the capacity to serve over 500 of Chicago's displaced and unfortunate. It offers beds, warm meals, clothes, a clinic, and Christian counseling to those that seek its services. The Pacific Garden Mission is always accepting donations for clothing, food, and financial gifts from those looking to help. For more information on the Pacific Garden Mission, please visit their site at http://www.pgm.org/

To donate food, clothing, and financial gifts, visit the Pacific Garden Mission at:

1458 South Canal Street

Chicago, IL 60607