It is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Joliet in Illinois.

The church was founded by 54 families in 1912,[1] with the first services held at the Lincoln School house.

[6] The parish hosts an annual Germanfest, which started in 1968[7] as a small picnic event.

[8] Each year, 30 to 40 thousand people attend the festival,[9] which is the longest-running outdoor festival in the western suburbs of Chicago.

[11] In 2012, the church held the funeral for inventor Eugene Polley.