See Inside Lonely Abandoned Illinois Church Declared ‘Hazardous’

It's now been empty for more than a decade and now you can see what little remains inside an abandoned Illinois church which has been declared "hazardous".

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Decaying Midwest is one of the more prominent urban exploration YouTube channels in Illinois and Missouri. They specialize in investigations of forgotten places. Few have been more overlooked in the past 11 years than what used to be a Lutheran Church in Chicago, Illinois. It first opened 100 years ago before being abandoned in 2012.

This is the viewpoint that the pastor would have had back in the day when preaching to the congregation.

A lot of the former church areas remain intact except for extreme levels of decay like this baptismal.

The choir loft in the back of the church still provides a stunning view of what used to be beautiful stained-glass windows.

Not all of the stained glass windows have survived the past decade with no one overseeing the property.

They say that this formerly Lutheran church in Chicago, Illinois was abandoned in 2012 while the city intervened in 2015 to make sure the premises were not inhabited declaring the building "hazardous" and not safe for occupying.

Many a choir member had this view during countless services over the past 100 years before it was vacated.

It's hard to watch investigations like this for what was once a grand building and likely thriving congregation to wonder what went wrong and where are the church members now.

WARNING: Under no circumstances should you enter this property. By doing so you risk bodily harm and/or prosecution for trespassing on private property.