The 1,050-square-foot home in Dolton, south Chicago, was bought by the Pope’s parents in 1949. They paid a monthly mortgage ...

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

Dolton residents were skeptical at Tuesday's board meeting, questioning whether the financially strained village could afford ...

W hat was once an average home in Chicago's south suburbs has now received national attention for being the childhood home of ...

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

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

The Dolton Village Board approved the acquisition of the three-bedroom house at 212 East 141st Place on Monday night.

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

Immediately after Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost was selected as the head of the Catholic Church, his childhood home went ...

What was once an overlooked property has now become Dolton’s unexpected lifeline. With Pope Leo XIV’s election drawing ...

Officials in Dolton, Ill., called the purchase a rare opportunity. But some residents questioned whether the village, ...

Pope speaks about childhood and early mornings as an altar boy - The American pope has spoken about his childhood for the first time in his papacy ...