Three of the Cardinals have Chicago ties, according to NBC 5 political reporter Mary Ann Ahern. They include Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Catholic Archbishop ... him to run the diocese of Chiclayo ...

Any baptized Catholic male ... But the Chicago-born Prevost, 69, could be a first. He has extensive experience in Peru, first as a missionary and then an archbishop, and he is currently prefect ...

Though he never visited, the pontiff's tenure reached into Chicago from the beginning, elevating Cupich first to archbishop of Chicago ... Bishop Hicks of the Diocese of Joliet echoed that ...