In June 2023, the campus relocated to 5416 South Cornell Avenue on the 4th floor of The James and Catherine Denny Center at Catholic Theological Union.

[5] In 1983, ten faculty members of the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Church's Christ Seminary-Seminex in St. Louis, Missouri, relocated to the LSTC campus, and on December 31, 1987, the two seminaries merged as part of the process that created the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

[4] On May 5, 2022, LSTC and McCormick announced the pending sale of their 3.5-acre (1.4 ha) campus bounded by 55th Street, Greenwood Avenue, University Avenue, and 54th Place to the University of Chicago, whose Hyde Park campus is across 55th Street from the seminaries.

[5] Construction of new facilities on the fourth floor of the Catholic Theological Union at 5416 South Cornell Avenue began in spring 2023, with completion expected in October.

[6] Starting in 1849, groups of Swedish immigrants began arriving in Illinois, forming congregations in Andover, Galesburg, Moline, and Chicago, and also in Iowa and Minnesota.

[7] Beginning in about 1869, the General Council of the Lutheran Church, especially at the urging of William A. Passavent of Pittsburgh, began considering establishment of an English language seminary in the Chicago area to train the pastors for the children of the German and Swedish immigrants.

In 1874, Passavant bought a two-acre (0.81 ha) site in Lake View on the north edge of Chicago at his own expense, and worked to raise funds for construction.

[8] Industrial development of the Lake View area caused the seminary to move to a 16-acre (6.5 ha) site in Maywood, with ten buildings being erected immediately.

A schism in 1920 due to a lack of church control over the seminary led to the dismissal of four faculty members and the loss of a substantial number of students.

[8] The controversy over the doctrine of the Word and the teachings of N. F. S. Grundtvig resulted in a split among Danish Lutherans immigrants.

Grand View College and Seminary was opened in 1896 in the namesake neighborhood of Des Moines, Iowa, and for 35 years the theological orientation of the school remained unchanged.

The separation of the college from the seminary began in 1950, although both institutions continued to share the campus and were under the same articles of incorporation and board of directors.

However, Suomi Synod students were required to take courses on the history and theology of the Church of Finland.

In 1910, control of the seminary was transferred to the board of trustees of Midland College, which was also located in Atchison at that time.

Despite serving an area from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast, the seminary had inadequate facilities and only a small faculty and student body, producing about 200 graduates in 50 years.

The ownership of the seminary eventually passed to the Central States, Iowa, Rocky Mountain, and Texas-Louisiana synods of the LCA.