Pope Leo XIV’s hometown has voted to buy his childhood Chicago home: ‘Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’

Dolton, Pope Leo XIV’s hometown, approves the purchase of his childhood home in hopes of reviving the village – Associated Press/MSN

Pope Leo XIV’s hometown has voted to buy his childhood Chicago home: ‘Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’

Initially the three-bedroom home where Pope Leo XIV grew up was put up for sale on May 5 for $245,957 but was quickly taken down after Robert Prevost was elected pope.

Pope Leo's childhood home to be preserved as historic site after town vote

(OSV News) — An Illinois town intends to purchase the childhood home of Pope Leo XIV, hoping to turn the property and its surroundings into a historical site. The board of trustees of the Village of Dolton voted unanimously July 1 to buy the modest, one-story brick dwelling located at 212 E. 141st Pl. in Dolton. Since the election of the first U.S.-born pope, the 75-year-old home — in which the former Robert Prevost was raised — has become a tou…