Chicago-Gary-Kenosha, IL-IN-WI CMSA

Denominational Groups, 2000

593,687	588,253	97,586	3,422,342	416,570	4,039,102
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
Catholic Church	Catholic	588	3,154,954	382.9
Black Baptists Estimate	Evangelical Protestant	n.a.	370,507	45.0
Jewish Estimate	Other Theology	169	252,850	30.7
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	320	179,523	21.8
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	273	174,251	21.2
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	362	156,787	19.0
Independent, Non-Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	29	115,865	14.1
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	214	107,717	13.1
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	182	83,665	10.2
Southern Baptist Convention	Evangelical Protestant	218	71,993	8.7
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	136	46,295	5.6
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	143	40,704	4.9
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	95	34,527	4.2
Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East, North American Dioceses	Orthodox	4	27,511	3.3
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church	Evangelical Protestant	14	26,765	3.3
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	87	22,420	2.7
Christian Reformed Church in North America	Evangelical Protestant	52	19,028	2.3
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, The	Other Theology	44	18,394	2.2
Christian Churches and Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	74	17,636	2.1
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	103	16,349	2.0
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	90	15,031	1.8
Reformed Church in America	Mainline Protestant	37	14,297	1.7
Evangelical Free Church of America, The	Evangelical Protestant	59	13,700	1.7
Baptist General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	67	13,487	1.6
Independent, Charismatic Churches	Evangelical Protestant	11	13,250	1.6
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	33	13,039	1.6
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	35	8,577	1.0
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)	Evangelical Protestant	60	8,013	1.0
Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations	Other Theology	28	6,338	0.8
Christian and Missionary Alliance, The	Evangelical Protestant	43	5,083	0.6
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	36	4,332	0.5
Christian Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	33	3,852	0.5
Salvation Army, The	Evangelical Protestant	31	3,634	0.4
Armenian Apostolic Church / Catholicossate of Cilicia	Orthodox	2	3,450	0.4
National Association of Congregational Christian Churches	Mainline Protestant	15	3,165	0.4
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	15	2,642	0.3
North American Baptist Conference	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,576	0.3
Presbyterian Church in America	Evangelical Protestant	13	2,479	0.3
Mennonite Church USA	Evangelical Protestant	28	2,264	0.3
Wesleyan Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	14	2,248	0.3
Church of the Brethren	Evangelical Protestant	11	2,022	0.3
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch	Orthodox	3	1,900	0.2
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations, The	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,618	0.2
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	1,320	0.2
Free Methodist Church of North America	Evangelical Protestant	17	1,267	0.2
Congregational Christian Churches, Additional (not part of any national CCC body)	Mainline Protestant	1	1,119	0.1
Missionary Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	6	1,090	0.1
American Association of Lutheran Churches	Evangelical Protestant	4	1,045	0.1
Conservative Congregational Christian Conference	Evangelical Protestant	2	868	0.1
Friends (Quakers)	Mainline Protestant	12	925	0.1
Church of God of Prophecy	Evangelical Protestant	19	898	0.1
Advent Christian Church	Evangelical Protestant	4	783	0.1
Apostolic Christian Church of America, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	3	747	0.1
National Association of Free Will Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	7	544	0.1
Pentecostal Church of God	Evangelical Protestant	9	604	0.1
American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church	Orthodox	3	528	0.1
Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	3	402	0.1
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church	Mainline Protestant	2	397	0.1
Baptist Missionary Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	5	404	0.1
Reformed Episcopal Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	276	0.0
Church of God (Seventh Day)	Evangelical Protestant	3	245	0.0
International Pentecostal Holiness Church	Evangelical Protestant	5	146	0.0
Evangelical Congregational Church, The	Evangelical Protestant	2	193	0.0
Evangelical Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	198	0.0
Enterprise Baptists Association	Evangelical Protestant	1	71	0.0
Cumberland Presbyterian Church	Evangelical Protestant	2	82	0.0
Primitive Methodist Church in the USA	Evangelical Protestant	1	69	0.0
Evangelical Methodist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	97	0.0
Evangelical Mennonite Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	92	0.0
Church of the Lutheran Confession	Evangelical Protestant	1	65	0.0
Church of God General Conference	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
Netherlands Reformed Congregations	Evangelical Protestant	1	16	0.0
Apostolic Christian Churches (Nazarean)	Evangelical Protestant	1	34	0.0
Old Regular Baptists	Evangelical Protestant	2	12	0.0
Brethren In Christ Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	0	0.0
Mennonite Brethren Churches, U.S. Conference of	Evangelical Protestant	1	25	0.0
Church of Christ, Scientist	Other Theology	70	n.a.	n.a.
Byelorussion Council Of Orthodox Churches In North America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Albanian Orthodox Diocese of America	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Romanian Orthodox Episcopate of America	Orthodox	3	n.a.	n.a.
Orthodox Church in America: Territorial Dioceses	Orthodox	12	n.a.	n.a.
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA	Orthodox	1	n.a.	n.a.
Conservative Baptist Association of America	Evangelical Protestant	25	n.a.	n.a.
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America	Orthodox	28	n.a.	n.a.
Open Bible Standard Churches, Inc.	Evangelical Protestant	3	n.a.	n.a.
Independent Fundamental Churches of America	Evangelical Protestant	43	n.a.	n.a.
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	4,102	5,099,325

The population of these counties (or equivalents) in 1990 was 8,239,820. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (5,099,325) include 61.9% of the total population in 1990.

Source

The 1990 data were collected by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB) and include statistics for 132 religious groups, including number of churches and adherents. Martin B. Bradley, Norman M. Green, Jr., Dale E. Jones, Mac Lynn, and Lou McNeil supervised the collection. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1990, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

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^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.