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, Ken Mary Drobick Obituary - IL ...

Unique church with a common problem. Located at 138th and Leyden Avenue, in the Riverdale neighborhood, the old St. Mary’s parish consists of a school, a rectory, a convent and an annex building.

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.

After returning from military service, he was associate pastor at St. Mary Catholic Church, Riverdale, in 1947 and 1948 and at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Chicago from 1948 to 1957.

The interior of a 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.