{"id":794179,"date":"2026-05-13T20:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/794179\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T20:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T20:04:13","slug":"chicago-mayor-brandon-johnson-will-travel-to-rome-italy-vatican-city-to-meet-pope-leo-xiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/794179\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will travel to Rome, Italy, Vatican City to meet Pope Leo XIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will travel to meet Pope Leo XIV, the mayor&#8217;s office said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The trip will be funded and led by World Business Chicago, an economic development agency in the city.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">ABC7 Chicago was told Johnson is expected to travel at the end of May to Rome, Italy and Vatican City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;I&#8217;m just elated that the Pope is from Chicago. I think we&#8217;re going to talk about the values we share &#8211; protecting voting rights, protecting immigrant rights, and protecting workers&#8217; rights. He&#8217;s been very clear and consistent on those issues, and I&#8217;m looking forward to that conversation,&#8221; Johnson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Last month, an &#8220;Illinois Mayors Public Diplomacy Mission&#8221; traveled to Rome to meet the Chicago-born pope.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/events-mark-1-year-elevation-chicago-born-pope-leo-xiv\/19063094\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pope Leo<\/a> recently celebrated his one-year anniversary of being elected pontiff of the worldwide Catholic church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">This is a developing story; check back with ABC7 Chicago for details.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will travel to meet Pope Leo XIV, the mayor&#8217;s office said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":794180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[324096,960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-794179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-324096","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116569064671000182","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794179","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=794179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}