On 212 E. 141st Place in Dolton, Illinois—just some blocks from Andy’s Sizzling Canines and Chuck’s Gun Store & Pistol Vary—resides a typical five-bedroom, three-bath, 1,200-square-foot brick dwelling that’s about to change into a landmark. As a result of it’s the childhood dwelling of Robert Prevost, the cardinal who has simply been elected to change into the following pope.
Listed on Redfin for $199,000 on the time of publishing, the house matches an tackle and tax information first reported by South Cook News. It additionally aligns with Prevost’s private historical past. Born and raised within the south suburbs of Chicago, he spent most of his life within the area.
The house, constructed in 1949, is typical of this neighborhood, which is stuffed with single-family properties constructed within the mid-century as households had been interested in garden life and close by prepare traces that would deliver them into the town. Dolton is an space that HBO’s present Southside as soon as completely dubbed, the “south aspect of the Southside.”
Bordering Chicago, it’s half of some suburban communities that also share the town’s grid earlier than golf programs and cul-de-sacs take over. These areas housed a lot of Chicago’s Irish Catholic group earlier than white flight within the Nineties dispersed them north, south, or east into Indiana. Prevost himself kicked round a number of south suburban cities, having lived in Homewood, New Lenox, and Olympia Fields.
Notably, the house was bought in Could 2024 for $66,000 by a flipper who renovated it to incorporate granite and subway tile within the kitchen, and what appears to be like to be refinished wooden (or new vinyl) flooring all through. The property has been available on the market for over 100 days and has been by way of one value discount already.
After we reached out to Steve Budzik, the agent representing the property, he mentioned that he had no clue it had been Prevost’s dwelling till just some hours in the past. And since, he’s already obtained two affords.
“The vendor both needs to take it off the market or elevate the value,” he mentioned with amusing.
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