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Chicago’s Democratic mayor Brandon Johnson gifts Pope Leo XIV a Chicago Cubs hat during a visit to the Vatican on May 28, 2026.

Also present in the delegation were multiple city aldermen, president of the Chicago Teachers Union Stacy Davis Gates and United Airlines director Kristopher Anderson, in addition to more than 40 other leaders.

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Pope Leo, a noted fan ofChicago’s other baseball team,the White Sox, refused to don the Cubs hat, joking that he was already wearing a hat, according to

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During the visit, Johnson also presented Pope Leo with a key to Chicago and an invitation to visit Chicago, thecity in which the Pope

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Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson gifts Pope Leo XIV a key to Chicago, the city in which the Pope was born and raised.May 28, 2026

Johnson recounted the day — Oct.5, 1979 — that Pope John Paul II visited Chicago and officiated Holy Mass in Chicago’s Grant Park, a day he called “the most spiritually inspiring day in Chicagohistory” in aletter to Pope Leo.

Johnson invited Pope Leo to officiate a Holy Mass in Grant Park again in 2027.

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Pope John Paul II stands on top of a four-level terraced altar during a celebration of mass in Grant Park before an estimated crowd of 1.5 million people on Oct.5, 1979.(Bettmann / Contributor via Getty Images)

“Your Holiness, you were a young priest-in-training at the time.Perhaps you were there.Perhaps you would consider a repeatPapal visitnearly 50 years later to share your own message of hope, unity and service,” he wrote.

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The mayor’s office also conveyed their wishes to work with the Pope on political issues, offering up a series of gifts that stressed the mayor’s political priorities.

The mayor offered Pope Leo letters fromfamilies of detained immigrants, a pin from the Southwest Community ICE Watch, a sanctuary city pin and a hat reading “Immigrants Make America Greater�