Press

First Church in the News

  • Congregating Creativity [Documentary Short]

    Pentimenti Productions
    January 7, 2025

  • The Rundown: What happens when an artist and a church collaborate?

    WBEZ Chicago
    April 25, 2024

  • Pastor Black peels back the mystery of the bananas

    Hyde Park Herald
    January 31. 2024

  • The Gift of Space

    Southside Weekly
    September 27, 2023

  • Best of Woodlawn 2022

    Southside Weekly
    September 22, 2022

  • South Side Program Helps Artists and Houses Of Worship Support Each Other

    Block Club Chicago
    February 7, 2024

  • South Siders Welcome Migrant Neighbors At Community Meal With Pledge To ‘Figure It Out Together’

    Block Club Chicago
    May 13, 2024

  • Sonic legacies and renewal: the AACM at 60

    Hyde Park Herald
    March 13, 2025

  • Tarot card play astounds at First Presbyterian

    Hyde Park Herald
    February 3, 2025

  • I-94 unites dance musicians from Chicago and Detroit

    Chicago Reader
    August 13, 2024

  • Featured in: What to do, eat, and see in the Washington Park/Woodlawn neighborhoods

    Choose Chicago
    January 4, 2023

  • Chicago pastors help the city grapple with flood of migrants

    Religion News Service
    January 18, 2024

  • People’s Agenda brings activists, vendors, religious leaders to Woodlawn

    Hyde Park Herald
    May 12, 2025

  • First Presbyterian Church’s ‘Toast To The South Side’ In Woodlawn Kicks Off EXPO Chicago Art Week

    Block Club Chicago
    April 21, 2025

  • As church attendance declines nationwide, local pastors get creative with vacant space

    Hyde Park Herald
    July 11, 2024

  • Woodlawn Church Welcomes New Migrant Neighbors With Banquet

    Borderless Magazine
    April 21, 2023

  • Woodlawn welcomes Wadsworth migrants with evening of dinner and dancing

    Hyde Park Herald
    April 17, 2023

  • People Powered: Robert Earl Paige Gets His Overdue Due

    New City
    April 1, 2024

  • Woodlawn comes together for First Presbyterian’s annual Easter egg hunt

    Hyde Park Herald
    April 1, 2024

  • Pastor Black peels back the mystery of the bananas

    Hyde Park Herald
    January 31. 2024

  • Best of Woodlawn 2022

    Southside Weekly
    September 22, 2022

  • The Gift of Space

    Southside Weekly
    September 27, 2023

  • [Letter to the Editor] Church Like You've Never Known It

    Hyde Park Herald
    July 5, 2022

  • [Pastor Black Interview] Chicago faith leaders grapple with local response to Israel-Hamas war

    WBEZ Chicago
    November 7, 2023

  • 24 Hours Make More Than a Day : An Interview with Max Li at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago

    Sixty Inches From Center
    July 31, 2023

  • Church blessed with wondrous gift: 'Everywhere I went I could smell bananas'

    WBBM News Radio
    January 31, 2024

  • Renewed push for Treatment Not Trauma ordinance begins at Woodlawn summit

    Hyde Park Herald
    July 24, 2023

  • Pair of free dance classes on offer at Woodlawn's First Presbyterian in February and March

    Hyde Park Herald
    Februay 29. 2022

  • 'Some kind of magic': Artist revives century-old photography practice at Woodlawn's First Presbyterian

    Hyde Park Herald
    February 27. 2024

  • The Rundown: What happens when an artist and a church collaborate?

    WBEZ Chicago
    April 25, 2024

  • Woodlawn pantry provides options for SNAP participants as emergency benefits end

    Greater Chicago Food Depository
    April 10, 2023

  • Community banquet in Woodlawn welcomes new arrivals

    FOX 32
    May 11, 2024

  • South Siders Welcome Migrant Neighbors At Community Meal With Pledge To ‘Figure It Out Together’

    Block Club Chicago
    May 13, 2024

  • Organizan evento comunitario e informativo para recién llegados y residentes del sur de Chicago

    Telemundo Chicago
    May 10, 2024

  • Chicago’s Oldest Church Develops Artists’ Space to Build Community

    Chicago Maroon
    April 17. 2022

  • Woodlawn Neighbors In Need Can ‘Shop’ For Free Food At Market Thursday Mornings

    Block Club Chicago
    November 11. 2022

  • Free Food Market in Woodlawn offers fresh food to Chicagoans in need

    FOX 32
    December 15, 2022

  • Free food market in Woodlawn to host special holiday market Dec. 19

    Hyde Park Herald
    December 16, 2022

  • First Presbyterian Church of Chicago continues to serve South Side

    The Caravan
    December 19, 2016

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