Mary A. Drobick, nee Kracik, age 83, of Riverdale, IL, August 20, 2003. Beloved wife of the late Stanley; loving mother of Lawrence (LaVerne), Mary Ann, Kenneth (Barbara) and Judy (Michael) McMahon… ...

Can Pope Leo XIV's boyhood church — St. Mary of the Assumption — be saved ? The church’s owner hopes the papal link can help efforts to save and reuse the parish buildings on the Far South Side.

Follow her on Twitter: @MelindaDC. Some members of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Mount Carmel, Ill., dare to hope that Pope Francis can save their parish after an awfully rough couple of years.

CHICAGO-- Some residents in South Deering, Illinois, say they see the Virgin Mary. St. Kevin's has served South Deering Catholics for 135 years, but these days, it's something behind the church ...

People walk inside the shuttered St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church, where Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost, used to attend while growing up, in Dolton, Illinois, on May 9, 2025.

Robert Prevost’s Catholic roots were planted in Chicago’s south suburbs, where he lived in Dolton and attended St. Mary’s parish before becoming Pope Leo XIV.

One hundred volunteers tackled a dozen service projects at St. Mary Church in Riverside, IL, as part of an Archdiocese of Chicago initiative.

The parish, St. Mary of the Assumption Church, located at 310 East 137th Street in the city's Riverdale neighborhood, merged with another parish in 2011, according to ChicagoCatholic.