CHICAGO (WLS) -- Pope Leo XIV is just beginning his first full day as pontiff. He led Mass at the Sistine Chapel and speaking before the cardinals who appointed him. The pope makes history as the ...

This week at Indepedent, Michelle Grabner is presenting new works at the Kohler Art Center with Cleveland's Abattoir Gallery.

Museums across the Chicago area are offering select free admission days to Illinois residents and beyond for the month of May ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago and raised in the south suburb of Dolton, where even his old house has become a point of pilgrimage.

In a place where civic pride is a way of life, Chicagoans need little help believing the election of Pope Leo shows their ...

We were waiting with bated breath to see what would happen,” the Very Rev. Anthony Benedetto Pizzo said, speaking from ...

Pope Leo XIV, born in Chicago as Robert Prevost, could give the papacy “a unique perspective,” one academic says. One ...

After white smoke billowed Thursday from the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a pope had been chosen, students in every ...

Robert Prevost - now known as Pope Leo XIV - has become the first American pontiff after white smoke finally emerged from the ...

The earliest clues suggest Leo could champion inclusion and openness to change — like his predecessor, Pope Francis.

Robert Prevost has been named the new pope. But why did he opt to select the title Leo XIV? Here's a closer look at its ...

Chicago hardcore group Stress Positions are sitting outside a watering hole in the Dutch city of Tilburg, but they’re not far enough from home that they don’t have fans around. A couple of Finnish ...