In his first days as pope, Leo XIV has struck many as an unassuming man of quiet warmth and deeply rooted identity. A visit to the part of Chicago where the first American Pontiff was raised gives an idea of how he got that way.

Pope Leo XIV is busy in his first full week of work in the Vatican, but will he consider making a trip home to Chicago in the near future?

From where Robert Francis Prevost lived and studied to where he dined as a cardinal, here are the places in the Chicago area with ties to the first American leader of the Catholic Church.