Illinois grants $200,000 to ten small nonprofits to support community services like food, housing, and job development, with ...

“The former St. Mary of the Assumption building is unique for its connection to the youth of the first American pope, but it ...

People in Central Illinois have been pushing the idea of high-speed rail stops since a bill was passed creating a committee ...

Bishops often imposed such restrictions — with varying levels of enforcement and typically without warning the public — until the explosive sex-abuse scandal exposed by the Boston Globe in 2002 in the ...

Museums across the Chicago area are offering select free admission days to Illinois residents and beyond for the month of May ...

The inauguration Mass on May 18 will be the formal installation ceremony where Pope Leo XIV will receive the Fisherman’s Ring and the pallium as symbols of his papal office. The “taking possession” ...

Pope Leo XIV voted in Democratic primaries in 2008 and 2010 and in three Republican primaries in the years that followed, ...

In Illinois, those impacts include heavy rainfall and flooding, heat waves and drought in the summer, and natural disasters like tornadoes, which can lead people to become displaced and cost the state ...

But Pope Leo can only vote if he is a U.S. citizen. Voting as a dual citizen is not uncommon — Pope Leo also holds ...

The powerful Big Apple cardinal served as “kingmaker” for fellow US Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago, rallying support in ...

We have an American-Peruvian Pope,” said Betty Lazaro. Locals say they expect Pope Leo to carry on Pope Francis’ call to ...

As millions of people tuned in to see the new pope step up to the Central Loggia of St Peter’s Basilica on May 8, many became ...