Along with two full pickleball courts, the club will have billiards and dart rooms, workspaces and a commercial kitchen, ...

Pope Leo XIV’s hometown of Chicago will celebrate the election of one of its own as leader of the Catholic Church.

At the former St. Cornelius Church​, at 5430 W. Foster Ave., rows of pews will soon be replaced with pickleball courts.

Sport is religion in Chicago. The biggest question locals had here once Cardinal Robert Prevost became the new pope was which baseball team he supported.

More crucially, where did he attend church as a boy? “No one in Chicago could relax until they knew which parish he was from,” said Bridget Gainer, a Cook County commissioner and member of a ...

Former Cardinal Robert Prevost stunned his hometown on Thursday when the Vatican announced that the 69-year-old Chicago native had been chosen as the first US-born pontiff in the 2,000-year history of ...

Pope Leo XIV met Thursday with members of the Vatican’s child protection advisory panel for the first time amid questions ...

Pope Leo XIV was once in the pews at St. Mary of the Assumption Parish on the far edge of Chicago’s southern border. James Keivom The American pontiff, now 69, was born and raised in the south ...

Chicago is reacting after its own native son Robert Prevost was introduced as Pope Louis XIV at the Vatican on Thursday. Crowds in St. Peter's Square cheered as white smoke signaled a new pope ...

The Chicago church is the only U.S. parish named after him. Naming a parish after a person who is “Blessed,” but not a saint, also was unusual. “The pastor was pretty confident he’d be ...

Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times “No one in Chicago could relax until they knew which parish he was from,” said Bridget Gainer, a Cook County commissioner and member of a large South ...