Cities region is well-represented at this week's boys IHSA state track & field meet in Charleston. Here are the seeds of the locals in all three classes.

An Illinois man was arrested for allegedly using a check that did not belong to him to purchase Legos in Kosciusko County.

With 31 wins, Brimfield/Elmwood is back in the sectional behind its aggressive hitting and Division I-bound pitcher.

In Chicago, whether it’s architecture or Catholicism, we do ordinary very well. It’s one reason we now call Pope Leo XIV our ...

In one of Chicago’s south suburbs, while other boys were playing cops and robbers, the future Pope Leo XIV would pretend to hold Mass in the basement of his family’s small brick home, reading from ...

A Grapevine deli owner went to the same school as Pope Leo XIV. Both attended St. Mary's in Riverdale, Illinois. Weinberger's Deli is now offering a "Papa Leo" sandwich in the pope's honor.

Dan Weinberger, the owner of Weinberger's Deli in Grapevine, attended the same grade school as Pope Leo XIV, who was then known as Robert Prevost, in Riverdale, Illinois. Gavin Newsom Moves to ...

began having all kinds of calls come in from former students of hers at St. Mary of the Assumption in Riverdale, Illinois where Prevost attended. "(They) called me and said 'You must have had ...

GRAPEVINE, Texas — In Grapevine, Texas, two Irish Catholic friends are celebrating a moment they never saw coming—and debating it like only South Side Chicago natives could. Dan Weinberger of ...

Dan went to grade school with the Pope at Saint Mary of the Assumption Church in Riverdale, Illinois. Dan says his younger brother served on the altar with the Pope. 'A sliding doors moment ...

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