Robert Prevost, now Pope Leo XIV, has a patchwork background that speaks to the melting pot that is the United States — and his birthplace, the city of Chicago.

Two Chicago police officers who were vacationing in Peru have found themselves stranded with no way to get home after the new Peruvian government declared a police state in response to widespread ...

Anyone with information is asked to call the FBI Chicago Field Office at (312) 421-6700, or Peru police at (815) 223-2151, ext. 0. More from CBS News 2 women killed, infant critical after being ...

2 CPD officers stranded in Peru amid civil unrest 00:25. CHICAGO (CBS) -- Two Chicago police officers are stranded in Peru, as the country descends into civil unrest.

2 Chicago police officers stuck in Peru stuck amid conflict made it home by: Jenna Barnes, Ben Bradley, Andrew Smith, Associated Press. Posted: Dec 15, 2022 / 06:47 PM CST.

Chiclayo, with more than 800,000 people, plays a vital role as the main commercial hub of Peru’s northern Pacific coast, with highways linking it to the Andes mountains and Amazon region.

An international court has demanded that the government of Peru offer an apology and pay compensation to the families of victims of a 1992 raid on a prison that held members of the infamous ...

Nick Beach, 18, and his mother, Sally Beach, 50, of Old Town, are among hundreds of Americans stuck in Peru due to that country’s president shutting the borders in an effort to stop the spread ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis on Monday named an American-born missionary in Peru, ... a Chicago native and former superior of his Augustinian order who began ministering in Peru in the 1980s ...

Robert Francis Prevost has become the 267th pontiff of the Catholic Church, taking the name Pope Leo XIV. The 69-year-old from Chicago is the first pope from the United States in the history of ...