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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Mariah Rush

Historic Antioch Church in Englewood looks for donations ahead of expansive rebuild

The Rev. Gerald Dew stands outside the former Antioch Baptist Church Monday in the 6200 block of South Stewart Avenue. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

The Rev. Gerald Dew remembers exactly where he was on Good Friday last year. That day — April 15, 2022, he’d led a noon service at Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, where he’d been pastor since 2001, and then he went home.

Dew was sitting at home when he got a call from a trustee saying there’d been a fire at the church. He assumed it was from something minor. 

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