CHICAGO (WLS) -- You have to consider yourself lucky if your path continually crosses that of man who would become pope. South Side resident Adarthus Harper instantly remembered a man he knew as ...

A secret project has been in the works inside the Ford assembly plant in South Deering. We knew a car was being built for a VIP, we just didn’t know which car and who it was going to,” said Quality ...

Todd Feurer is a web producer for CBS Chicago. He has previously written for WBBM Newsradio, WUIS-FM and the New City News Service. Chicago firefighters responded to a fire on Monday afternoon at the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A customized Ford Explorer Platinum assembled at the Chicago Assembly Plant was delivered to Pope Leo XIV during a private meeting ...

In the fall of last year, Ford Motor Co. leaders assigned a small group of workers at the Chicago Assembly Plant a job to build a unique Explorer for "a VIP." It was the highest trim level: A Platinum ...

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Ford Motor Co.'s CEO and his wife have donated to Pope Leo XIV a secretly built, customized 2026 Ford Explorer hybrid SUV built in the pope's native Chicago. Jim and Lia Farley gifted the vehicle in ...

Ford Motor Co. CEO Jim Farley and his wife, Lia, recently presented Pope Leo XIV with a specially built 2026 Ford Explorer hybrid, a one-of-a-kind SUV designed and assembled by employees at the ...