A new book suggests Chicago-born Richard Prevost may have been reluctant at first to take on the weighty responsibility of ...

Just because he's on vacation doesn't mean Pope Leo XIV takes a break from his Sunday duties. The pontiff led Mass on Sunday, ...

When Henry Louis Gates Jr. set out to trace the family tree of America's first pope, he had no idea he was about to uncover ...

This is a time of change for Latino Catholics, currently about 40 percent of the U.S. Church, and who experts say are likely ...

But beyond the celeb connections, Gates’ research uncovered something far more powerful: Pope Leo XIV is of mixed Black and ...

1896: James Foulis, a native of St. Andrews, Scotland who became professional at Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, shot 78-74—152 ...

Chicago didn’t just invent these foods—it perfected them. Here’s what the city still does better than anywhere else.

Six new restaurants opened in Chicago this spring, offering everything from birria tacos to Korean comfort food — and many draw from deep family roots.

The Village of Dolton recently purchased the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV for $375,000, and is working to obtain landmark status for both the home and the abandoned St. Mary’s of ...