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The announcement of the first U.S.-born pope is important for all Americans but resonates especially strongly in Chicago and its larger community, known locally as Chicagoland. Born on the city’s Southside and raised in the nearby suburb of Dolton, Robert Prevost, the man who would become Pope Leo XIV, taught in local Catholic schools and attended Chicago Theological Union before he became a missionary in Peru and began his rise in the church’s ranks.