CHICAGO (CBS) --A neighborhood landmark is coming down; the wind-damaged steeple atop the 121-year-old Concordia Evangelical Lutheran Church in Avondale has become loose, and must be removed.

Workers late Monday began preparing to remove the towering white steeple atop Concordia Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood. High winds Sunday night dislodged several ...

City crews will remove the steeple from Concordia Lutheran Church, located at Belmont and Washtenaw in the Avondale neighborhood on Chicago's Northwest Side. Belmont Avenue between Rockwell and ...

“You could see the steeple driving on the Chicago Skyway.” The Illinois Conference of the United Church of Christ also offered condolences to the Advocate congregation Saturday. Click to share ...

Max Robin Share Plenty of Chicago churches offer fiery rhetoric. But real flames at a Northwest Side church caused enough damage that the steeple had to be torn down. In February, there was a fire ...