The city of Chicago is celebrating the first American pope on Saturday. Pope Leo XIV will offer a special video message at the home of the Chicago White Sox. He was known as Robert Prevost on the city's South Side and is a known White Sox fan.

The program on Saturday in Chicago includes music, prayer, speeches and Pope Leo’s first public address to an American audience.

Harvard University Prof. Henry Louis Gates Jr. takes a deep dive into the pope's past in New York Times Magazine piece.

The forecast is sunny for Pope Leo's Chicago event on June 14. Meanwhile, Trump's military parade in D.C. is looking much wetter.

Chicago is to fete its first pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost turned Leo XIV, on Saturday. "A unique celebration for the election of the first Pope born in Chicago", the website of the Archdiocese of Chicago advertised the celebration,

Pope Leo plans to give a virtual address in his hometown of Chicago – at the same time as Trump’s military parade - Tickets for the event, which is to be held at the Rate Field stadium, home of the Chicago White Sox (the pontiff’s favorite team),

Genealogists researching Pope Leo's family tree cast a wide net and found he has some very distant, but very famous cousins.