Across Chicago, Sunday churchgoers returned to pews still stunned and elated about the election of a native of the city’s South Side to the papacy.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Pope Leo XIV and his family have a long history on Chicago's South Side. Long before Robert Prevost was elected by his fellow Cardinals, he was a friend to a South Side family.

Reaction to the announcement of 69-year-old Pope Leo XIV, born Robert Francis Prevost, who is from the South Side and raised ...

St. Mary of the Assumption, the church that served as the pope’s base, has been closed for years now. CHICAGO — Pope Leo XIV ...

Like Pope Leo XIV, who turns out to be a regular South Sider who follows the White Sox, the Dolton house where he grew up is ...

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Chicagoans have predictably reacted in grandiose fashion with humor and genuine affection for South Sider Robert Prevost as ...

His rise in the faith began at a South Side church. “Even as a young teenager ... taking in thousands of people moving from apartments in Chicago to new homes in the south suburb during the ...

Marco Velazquez speaks out after two alleged squatters were found inside his home in the South Side of Chicago. ABC 7 “I couldn’t believe it. It was like a nightmare,” Velazquez told ABC ...

A second person was found dead at the same South Side living facility where a knife-wielding man was fatally shot early ...

At a once-vacant brownfield on the South Side of Chicago, a semitruck backed into an unassuming warehouse and unloaded a colorful batch of food scraps and spoiled products. The discards soon ended ...