During his travels from Pope Leo XIV's hometown, Dolton, Illinois, to Ellis Island, New York, Chicago priest Fr. Gary Graf ...

Father Graf said he is delighted that both the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Pope Leo XIV addressed the immigration ...

Gary Graf — or Father Gary, as he calls himself — started walking in Dolton, Illinois, at Pope Leo XIV’s childhood home. Over the last five weeks, Graf, a Catholic ...

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He was the popular pastor in Waukegan for 14 years before moving on to other pastoral assignments in the Chicago Archdiocese beginning in 2009, mainly in Cook County’s south suburbs.

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They arrived as rich and poor, white and non-white, and, without exception, legally. With the gradual decline of such great influxes, Ellis Island finally ceased operating roughly 71 years ago. Yet ...

Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S. -- or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year. All were registered, documented, and ...

Ellis Island closed as an immigration station and detention center. Between 1892 and 1954, more than 12 million immigrants arrived by boat in the United State of America. Ellis Island was the largest ...

On Nov. 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed as an immigration station and detention center. More than 12 million immigrants arrived in the United States via Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954.