The 1,050-square-foot home in Dolton, south Chicago, was bought by the Pope’s parents in 1949. They paid a monthly mortgage ...

The Dolton Village Board unanimously voted to acquire Pope Leo XIV's childhood home, attracting pilgrims and raising local ...

The village where the former Robert Prevost grew up had vowed to obtain the modest brick home shortly after news of his ...

The value of the property, which stands along East 141st Place in Dolton, skyrocketed after Robert Prevost was elected pope.

In a unanimous vote at a special board meeting held July 1, the village council of Dolton, Ill., voted to purchase the ...

A village in Chicago’s south suburbs is poised to purchase Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home after its board voted unanimously on ...

Since white smoke billowed in May from the Sistine Chapel and Pope Leo XIV was elected Pope Francis' successor, the new ...

What was once an overlooked property has now become Doltons unexpected lifeline. With Pope Leo XIVs election drawing ...

An auction for Pope Leo XIV’s boyhood home in Dolton was extended, while a federal judge declined to block Dolton from buying it.

Officials in Dolton, Ill., called the purchase a rare opportunity. But some residents questioned whether the village, ...

Dolton’s first post office was established in 1856, for the many Germans who immigrated roughly 100 years before Robert Prevost and his two older brothers attended St. Mary of the Assumption school.

Robert Collins Jr. is out as Dolton police chief, ending his second tour as the village’s top cop, and said he has hired an attorney to “look into the circumstances” surrounding his dismissal.