You know that beautiful red-bricked church you see every time you circle the eagle statue in Logan Square? I bet many of you, like myself, didn’t know that it is one of only two churches in America where Norwegian is the primary language spoken. The building at 2614 N Kedzie Avenue is actually known as the Minnekirken and is a Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church.

On Thursday–the church which has been standing since 1906– had the stained-glass windows above the entrance replaced (they had been covered in plexiglass before) to give it back its original historic look. Logan Square Preservationists raised $5,000 for the project.

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Opera-Matic, which consists of artists that bring the visual arts to public places, will be organizing the”The Joyful Passage,” this weekend. The Joyful Passage, suitably named after the city’s Safe Passage program which provide safe routes for kids heading to and from school, is an event to celebrate the many wonders and beauty of Humboldt Park.

The Humboldt Park Neighborhood Children’s Choir will start the event off at 7:30pm tonight and is expected to end at 9pm. The serenade will spread it’s appreciation for the beauty of the park itself but also to the people that maintain it and keep it going through animation and singing .

Read more about this story here by Paul Biasco.