The Catholic leaders of Leo’s hometown hold out hope that the new pope can help turn around ailing finances and a shortage of ...

The Chicago White Sox are eagerly embracing the man who has become their most famous fan: Pope Leo XIV. The pontiff, who was ...

Rep. Martin McLaughlin (R-Barrington Hills) is seeking to have a statue of the Chicago-born pontiff built at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield.

An Illinois state lawmaker proposed making license plates honoring Dolton-native Pope Leo XIV available to state residents, ...

When Robert Francis Prevost was growing up in a modest house in Dolton, Illinois, no one, not even his neighbors, imagined he ...

Charity ‘Farms for City Children’ recently welcomed pupils from local schools to their centre near Okehampton give them a ...

Pope Leo XIV was born Robert Prevost and spent several years living in Dolton, IL, in a humble home that is now up for ...

Authorities said 24-year-old Contrail Boone of Chicago was shot and killed in Dolton, and Denard Allison, 37, was shot in ...

Pope Leo XIV's background tells the story of complicated racial identities in the U.S., multiculturalism and Black Catholics ...

The house in Dolton, where Pope Leo XIV grew up, could become a museum. The Polish owner, Paweł Radzik, might lose the ...