Catholic churches in Carol Stream, Villa Park, Wheaton and Oakbrook Terrace are being closed as part of a restructuring plan announced Thursday by the Joliet Diocese. By July 1, St. Mark in Wheaton ...

The Chicago Bears laid their matriarch to rest on a snowy Wednesday morning in the northwest suburbs. Hundreds of friends and ...

MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill. (WLS) -- Wednesday was the funeral for Bears principal owner Virginia Halas McCaskey. Family, friends ...

The latest wave of consolidations in the Diocese of Joliet follows other controversial closings in recent years. While "budgetary issues" are cited as among the factors, church officials refuse to ...

Catholic universities are claiming religious exemptions to avoid faculty unions. Theologians and faculty members themselves ...

A private funeral service will be held for Virginia Halas McCaskey, the 102-year-old owner of the Chicago Bears, after a ...

All three of the retiring or retired prelates tendered their resignations to the Vatican upon their 75th birthdays in ...

Chicago Bears greats from past and present attended the funeral service Wednesday for longtime owner Virginia McCaskey. NBC Chicago’s Kate Chappell reports. Longtime Bears matriarch, Virginia McCaskey ...

Peter Deutsch, a former Democratic congressman from South Florida who founded a network of Hebrew-language charter schools, ...

Finally, these four parish churches and one chapel will close effective July 1, 2025, the Diocese of Joliet revealed on Thursday.

Pope Francis has accepted the resignations of Archbishop Dennis M. Schnurr, 76, and of Bishop R. Walker Nickless, 77.

Celebrated watercolorist and Illinois’ Artist Laureate died at the age of 101 on Tuesday. Entering his second year as the Sky’s general manager, Pagliocca has the team’s rebuild back on track after ...