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

Dolton officials are moving ahead with plans to buy Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home in the village, hoping to snap up the ...

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

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

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

Burt Odelson, Dolton’s attorney behind the deal, said that the owner agreed to sell amid threats of Dolton taking the house ...

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

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.

When Cardinal Robert Prevost was in the first grade, his neighbor told him he would be the first American pope, his brother told ABC News. On Thursday, that prophecy came true, when Prevost was ...

A Dolton neighbor told young Cardinal Robert Prevost he would be pope someday, his New Lenox brother said Thursday. Now he's Pope Leo XIV.