Near the anniversary of his sudden and early death from a heat stroke on a hot, steamy Chicago street in July 1897, ...

Dolton Mayor Jason House said the village’s purchase of the former home of Robert Francis Prevost, now known as Pope Leo XIV, is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. A steering committee will look at ...

The first American canonized by the Roman Catholic Church — just like the first American chosen as pope — once walked among the people of Chicago.

Top church leaders in the Holy Land have condemned intensifying Israeli settler violence on the only entirely Christian Palestinian village remaining in the occupied West Bank. Monday's rare solidarit ...

Illinois has one of the nation’s worst problems with child sex abuse at juvenile detention centers. That's according to attorneys representing more than 900 survivors who have filed lawsuits ...

The Italian director Damiano Michieletto has engaged, and sometimes enraged, European audiences. Now he’s preparing for his ...

Odessa Police Officer Bailey Martin is among the latest fatalities identified from the Texas floods. Odessa police say Martin ...

Malaya Grace Hammond is among the latest fatalities identified from the Texas floods. Hammond's family said she was swept ...

Cynthia Delligatti, 103, of Wheatland, Wisconsin, passed away peacefully on Friday, July 11, 2025, in Salem, surrounded by ...

Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association joyfully presents the 71st Annual Choir Festival: The Light of Life on Saturday, July 19, 2025 at 7:00pm. Set within the soaring arches of the historic Great ...

Northbrook’s Board approved a developer’s plan to build 53 townhomes on the former Our Lady of the Brook Catholic Church site ...

A slew of parishes were set to close or consolidate July 1, including Oakbrook Terrace’s Ascension of Our Lord Catholic ...