DOLTON | Politician Robert "Bob" Shaw was beaten on a Dolton street Saturday by a Cook County corrections officer, police said. Elliott R. Kozel, 48, of Chicago, faces a misdemeanor battery charge ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- An off-duty Dolton police officer was wounded in a shooting on Chicago's South Side early Monday morning, police said. The officer was off-duty at the time of the shooting and dressed ...

Dolton Mayor Jason House said the village’s purchase of the former home of Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. A steering committee will look at ...

With Dolton eyeing possible ownership of Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home in the village, officials plan to name a portion of the street in front of the house in his honor. A ceremony is still to be ...

Pope Leo XIV’s modest childhood home in Dolton has become the center of a growing legal and political showdown. Dolton officials plan to purchase the new pope’s former home through eminent domain, ...

I doubt I ever met Robert Francis Prevost. In 1974 (I think), my family bought a small home in Dolton, Illinois. The village, pronounced DAHL-ton (as opposed to DOLE-ton), is on Chicago’s southern ...