{"id":872600,"date":"2026-06-17T03:10:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/872600\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T03:10:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:10:26","slug":"alderman-ray-lopez-to-introduce-legislation-in-chicago-city-council-to-rename-northerly-island-in-honor-of-pope-leo-xiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/872600\/","title":{"rendered":"Alderman Ray Lopez to introduce legislation in Chicago City Council to rename Northerly Island in honor of Pope Leo XIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"WLS logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/origin-wls.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, June 16, 2026 9:09PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Alderman to propose renaming Northerly Island in honor of Pope Leo\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; A Chicago alderman wants to honor <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/tag\/pope-leo\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pope Leo<\/a> by renaming a popular spot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Ald. Ray Lopez wants to rename Northerly Island to Pope Leo XIV Northerly Island.<\/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 \">He plans to introduce legislation on it to the Chicago City Council on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Pope Leo is a Dolton native and the first American to lead the Catholic Church.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WLS-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByABC7 Chicago Digital Team Tuesday, June 16, 2026 9:09PM CHICAGO (WLS) &#8212; A Chicago alderman wants to honor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":872601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[354899,960,24970,5462,5386,1818,354897,354898,5389,3417,91172],"class_list":["post-872600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-354899","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-city-council","tag-chicago-news","tag-il","tag-illinois","tag-northerly-island","tag-northerly-island-chicago","tag-pope-leo","tag-pope-leo-xiv","tag-ray-lopez"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116763259184303110","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872600","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=872600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}