U of I Chancellor Robert Jones warns that Illinois' proposed funding model for public universities could undermine access, ...

Chicagoans in Rome this weekend who knew the former Robert Prevost during his religious studies on the South Side and work in ...

Pope Leo’s hometown in the south suburbs was hit with economic hardship after the collapse of the steel industry on the Far ...

Amazingly, miraculously, an American has been elected Holy See of the Catholic Church. Cardinal Robert Prevost of Chicago, who spent much of his career in the nation of Peru, became ...

Across Chicago, Sunday churchgoers returned to pews still stunned and elated about the election of a native of the city’s ...

A day after the Vatican shocked the world by electing Robert Francis Prevost, a Chicago-born cardinal who spent most of his career in Peru, to be the new leader of the Roman Catholic Church, pilgrims ...

A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself. In the breathless day since Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American pontiff, the memes, doctored images and ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — Pope Leo XIV an Augustinian priest. Cardinal Robert Prevost is the first American pope in the 2,000-year history of the Catholic Church. He is a Chicago area native and has many ...

“It’s a day of great excitement for the church,” Sullivan said. “It’s a day of great excitement for Chicago (and) for the United States to have one of our own be elected as the pope ...

Jane Bennett Bowne, 84, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, died on March 26, 2025, where she was most comfortable, at home, on her couch, in the morning sunlight, with her loved ones surrounding her.

James Rondeau, director of the Art Institute of Chicago stands next to Grant Wood's American Gothic (1930) as it is installed at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, England, for a 2017 exhibition.

CHICAGO – The president of the Art Institute of Chicago is on voluntary leave from the museum after an alleged incident on a United Airlines flight last month. On Friday, April 18, James Rondeau ...