Pending the sale, the Village plans to convert the pope’s childhood home within 30-60 days. WGN’s Christine Flores will have a live report on the Evening News at 9 p.m.

Pope Leo XIV's hometown is poised to buy his childhood home after the south Chicago suburb's board voted unanimously Tuesday to purchase the property, hoping it will breathe new life into a ...

DOLTON, Ill. – You might be able to tour the pope's house. Pope Leo's hometown in Illinois, just outside Chicago, bought his childhood home in the village of Dolton. It sold for $375,000 and ...

Pope Leo XIV ’s childhood home in Chicago has just sold – and for well over the initial asking price. Long before taking up residence in the Apostolic Palace this May, the pontiff – then ...

A sign with a painting and the name of Pope Leo XIV is posted on the front lawn of his childhood home at 212 E. 141st Place in Dolton on July 2, 2025. A roofing company renovated the home's roof ...

Pope Leo grew up in a small brick house in the Chicago suburb of Dolton which is now up for auction. The village's board of trustees voted to buy it, in the hopes of creating a historic attraction.

Since white smoke billowed in May from the Sistine Chapel and Pope Leo XIV was elected Pope Francis' successor, the new pope's childhood home — a small, two-story house in Dolton, Ill., about 20 ...

CHICAGO (AP) — Pope Leo XIV’s hometown is poised to buy his childhood home after the south Chicago suburb’s board voted unanimously Tuesday to purchase the property, hoping it will breathe ...