Several residents at the Dolton, Illinois, board meeting were skeptical about any benefit to taxpayers, questioning whether the financially strained village could afford to purchase the home and maintain area streets.
After white smoke billowed Thursday from the Sistine Chapel, signaling that a pope had been chosen, students in every classroom at The Frances Xavier Warde School in Chicago had their eyes glued to TV screens.
"Our country faces the return of the most pro-family, most pro-life American president of our lifetimes," Vice President JD Vance told the crowd in his in-person speech.
