Buildings & Grounds Maintenance Ministry includes a special group of volunteers who help care for the church and its grounds such as tending to the landscape and the plants within the church.

The Finance Council is a group of parish members who meet as need to manage the financial well-being of the parish. The council is appointed by the Rector.

Offertory Counters work in teams to open, sort, count, and prepare for deposit the offertory collections. This ministry is perfect for those with limited time, as counters meet on a rotating basis, approximately every six weeks on Sunday or Monday mornings after the weekend Masses. 

Email Mary Wheaton, contact the parish office at 815-722-6653 or complete the form below. 

As with all parishes in the Diocese of Joliet, the Cathedral has an active Parish Council.  According to Diocesan guidelines, it functions as follows:  The parish pastoral council, in collaboration with the pastor, assumes the overall well-being of the parish, present and future.  Its primary work is strategic pastoral planning;  its secondary work is consultative, proposing practical solution to the ongoing life of the parish.

Members of the council are individuals with talent in planning and designing parish mission, vision and goals.  They are individuals who are committed to the parish as a whole, are willing to serve for three years, are able to attend council meetings and can work collaboratively with each other and the pastor.

The parish pastoral council is accountable to multiple groups and fulfills its function by being responsible to the parish community, the pastor, the Bishop, the Diocesan Pastoral Council, the Office of Ministry Formation and itself.

The Parish Council meets monthly from August to May. Meetings are generally held on the last Tuesday of each month at 7:00pm in the Commons.

Parish Council minutes are available upon request.

Current Council Members: Larry Alt, Luis Leon, Stephen O'Connor, Steve Blotnik, JoAnne Bailey, Susie Cempel, Paul Cabay