The price is the highest on record for a single-family home in Dolton, where the average price over the past year was a little more than $161,000.

The property where Pope Leo XIV—who was born Robert Prevost—grew up is set to be turned into a historical landmark.

Robert Prevost was born on Sept. 14, 1955, in Mercy Hospital in Chicago’s Bronzeville neighborhood — the same hospital where Venerable Augustus Tolton, the first Black American Catholic priest ...