Sabrina Franza

6 days ago | cbsnews.com | Sabrina Franza

Pope’s pal says if he had to pick classmate for pope, he would have guessed “Bob” Prevost One of Pope Leo XIV's longtime friends said that if he had to guess which person in his class would have grown up to become the pontiff, the man he knew as "Bob" Prevost would have been his number one pick. "This is the pope right here.

1 week ago | cbsnews.com | Sabrina Franza

Cardinal Prevost, originally from Chicago, could be candidate for pope Never in the history of the Roman Catholic Church has there been an American pope, but now, one name has been coming up as a possible frontrunner. Robert Cardinal Prevost is originally from Chicago, and serves as the head of the church's Dicastery for Bishops. The powerful position means he oversees the selection of new bishops.

1 week ago | keyt.com | Sabrina Franza |Elyssa Kaufman |Sara Tenenbaum

By Sabrina Franza, Elyssa Kaufman, Sara TenenbaumClick here for updates on this story    Illinois (WBBM) — A Plainfield, Illinois, landlord convicted on all counts in the Islamophobic hate crime murder of a 6-year-old Palestinian-American boy, and the stabbing of the boy’s mother, was sentenced to over 50 years in prison Friday.

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Sabrina Franza

The Chicago Public Schools are under federal investigation again — this time for a program that CPS said is meant to provide a fair education to all students. A complaint claims the CPS is actually using the program to discriminate on the basis of race. This is the second time in two months that the federal government has investigated possible civil rights violations in the Chicago Public Schools system.

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Sabrina Franza

A group of men was caught on camera Sunday taking catalytic converters in broad daylight in Chicago's West Ridge neighborhood. A woman who lives on the block said it all happened on Talman Avenue near Glenlake Avenue, at the back of Green Briar Park. She took video of the men driving off. Neighbors say such crimes happen all the time in the area — but this one was especially brazen. In the video, the men are seemingly unbothered — even when neighbors say they are going to call police.