Dolton officials are moving ahead with plans to buy Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home in the village, hoping to snap up the ...

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

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

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

Since white smoke billowed in May from the Sistine Chapel and Pope Leo XIV was elected Pope Francis' successor, the new ...

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

DOLTON, Ill. (WLS) -- The Dolton Village Board voted unanimously to purchase Pope Leo XIV 's childhood home on Tuesday night.

In a unanimous vote at a special board meeting held on July 1, the village council of Dolton, Illinois, voted to purchase the ...

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