Screening Question: What is your affiliation with the Catholic Church, if any? 1,475 adults in Cook and Lake Counties responded Never been Catholic 47.0% Currently Catholic 34.8% Raised Catholic, but currently another religion 9.5% Raised Catholic, but not currently any religion 4.5% Don’t know/Refused 4.2% Demographics of the 601 current and former Catholics interviewed … Read more
Archbishop Blase Cupich is already shaking up the archdiocesan hierarchy, replacing the No. 2 he inherited—Bishop Francis Kane, 72—with a man 25 years his junior.
The Chicago Archdiocese’s expenses have been rising faster than revenues, in part due to fewer faithful … Percentage drop since 1980: People attending weekly Mass1 41% People attending Catholic grade school2 55% … at the same time its inexpensive workforce is shrinking … Number of Nuns: In 1980 5,040 In 2014 1,676 33% are retired … Read more
Students from some of Chicago’s most dangerous neighborhoods were given good jobs and mentors to guide them through. The effects continued well beyond the end of the program.
A week before he became the archbishop of Chicago, Blase Cupich sat down with Chicago to talk about some of the challenges he faces.
Chicago’s Robert Morris University is the first college in the country to make video games a varsity sport.
The Illinois comptroller died on Wednesday after complications from a stroke.
The veteran catcher is a master of the subtle art of pitch framing, which could save the Cubs as many runs as acquiring Jon Lester.
By most measures, Jude Baar Topinka, the state treasurer and sometime accordion player, is the most successful Republican politician in Illinois.
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