Chicago reacts to hometown Pope Leo: ‘Like the Cubs winning the World Series’

Residents - Catholic and non-Catholic - celebrate a moment of joy' as native son Robert Prevost becomes new pontiff

As white smoke billowed from the Vatican in Rome, yellow papal flags whipped in the crisp Lake Michigan breeze in front of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy on Chicago's North Side.

Screams of Habemus Papam!" echoed throughout the cafeteria at the Catholic school on Thursday afternoon, when news broke that Chicago's Robert Prevost had become Pope Leo XIV.