FEATURE image: At the top of the high altar’s retable in St. Michael Church in Chicago’s Old Town is the figure of St. Michael the Archangel, the parish church’s patron. St. Michael is mentioned in several places in both the Hebrew and Christian scriptures. The near northside Chicago parish has been administered by the Redemptorist … Continue reading Architecture & Design Photography: AUGUST WALLBAUM. St. Michael Church, 1869, in Old Town. Founded in 1852, it is Chicago’s Oldest German Parish.