{"id":35821,"date":"2025-07-03T17:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/35821\/"},"modified":"2025-07-03T17:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T17:09:10","slug":"chicago-pope-bus-tour-to-highlight-homegrown-pontiffs-upbringing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/35821\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Pope Bus Tour to highlight homegrown pontiff&#8217;s upbringing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/2C88F1E33CB9BCFDDDC6597C9AE9BB3D.jpg\" alt=\"Chicago celebrates 'hometown pope' at Rate Field\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-44b63364=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/people\/pope-leo-xiv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pope Leo XIV-themed<\/a> bus tour highlighting his origins and favorite stomping grounds is coming to Chicago next month.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The four-hour guided tour explores several meaningful locations from the pope&#8217;s upbringing, including his birthplace, the church where he worshiped, his childhood home and his favorite pizza spot.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Tour organizers said it offers a historical and personal insight into one of the city&#8217;s most unexpected global figures.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Tickets are priced at $59 for weekdays and $79 for weekends. They include transportation, narrated commentary, bottled water and a slice of pizza from Aurelio&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Eating and drinking on the bus are not allowed. Non-alcoholic drinks may be consumed while passengers are off the bus.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The tour begins and ends in Lincoln Park near the intersection of Racine and Fullerton avenues.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The tours will run rain or shine. To book your tickets, head over to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagopopetour.com\/book-a-tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Pope Bus Tour website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this report came from the Chicago Pope Bus Tour.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/people\/pope-leo-xiv\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pope Leo XIV<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/religion\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Religion<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/dolton\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dolton<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/lincoln-park\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lincoln Park<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; A Pope Leo XIV-themed bus tour highlighting his origins and favorite stomping grounds is coming to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":35822,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,14683,5386,1818,29411,50,3546,3417,365,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-35821","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-dolton","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-lincoln-park","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-people","16":"tag-pope-leo-xiv","17":"tag-religion","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114790410804639879","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}