Late Friday morning, I drove to a quiet neighborhood in suburban Chicago and stopped in front of the home of the Pope’s ...

Pope Leo was born in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood and grew up in Dolton. His family has always been dedicated to Catholic education. According to the Archdiocese of Catholic Schools, Pope Leo ...

Newly elected Pope Leo XIV is in a new job that will have many crossovers into politics. It's a realm not entirely unknown to ...

How Pope Leo XIV chooses to tackle critical topics from same-sex marriage to women in the church remains to be seen, but ...

This story contains mentions of gun violence. Sociology Prof. Andrew Papachristos has worked on community-based gun violence ...

The city is marking a construction milestone for a new affordable housing development on the South Side. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24/7. Click here to watch Thrive Exchange is being built at 79th ...

Brandon Johnson and five Alders introduced the Hazel Johnson Cumulative Impacts Ordinance, which aims to address the ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- City Council handed Mayor Brandon Johnson a major victory Wednesday, by greenlighting his Green Social Housing ordinance: It uses taxpayer money to help create more affordable housing ...

The policy to use city cash to help finance housing construction could set an example for other locales seeking to build ...

North Dakota is the latest state to report a measles outbreak, confirming its first cases of the highly contagious virus in ...

Fifteen lakefront properties in North Shore were assessed at more than $16 million this year, a dramatic rise from just two ...