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

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 ...

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 ...

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

An Illinois village has voted to purchase the childhood home of the first American pope, with a trustee saying the ...

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

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

A village in Chicago’s south suburbs is poised to purchase Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home after its board voted unanimously on ...

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

The value of the property, which stands along East 141st Place in Dolton, skyrocketed after Robert Prevost was elected pope.

The village where the former Robert Prevost grew up had vowed to obtain the modest brick home shortly after news of his ...