Fifteen deacons were ordained Saturday morning at Holy Name Cathedral in downtown Chicago, in a private mass many people called magical, especially on the heels of the selection of a new pope who is a ...

Dolton residents and officials hope native Robert Prevost’s election as pope will improve an image soured by Mayor Tiffany ...

Because central and southern Illinois differ from the north in how they make and buy electricity, they’re slipping behind in the race for cheap power, clean air and economic growth.

Some 6,150 miles away from the Vatican at St. Mary's Basilica in downtown Phoenix, Catholics came together to pray for the ...

Leo’s ascent occurred with remarkable speed. Just over two years ago, he’d been one of the church’s 5,400 bishops — a role ...

A revolutionary program united former gang cops and Watts residents to bring safety to the projects. But can reform last?

The bells of St. Mary's Basilica in downtown Phoenix rung for a few minutes ... Keller, a 16-year Phoenix resident, said he lived for 20 years in Chicago, where Prevost was born.

In a wide-ranging interview on Thursday afternoon at his home in New Lenox, a tidy city of 27,000 people about 40 miles southwest of downtown Chicago ... death during the 1980s and ’90s.

We stereotype them and pin labels on them — sleazy politics in Chicago, industrial decline ... with a vital downtown and houses selling for a million dollars. The mini-boom seemed to end with ...