The new pontiff’s home city has welcomed him with jokey tropes, from its deep dish pizzas to stained-glass windows depicting a dunking Michael Jordan.
The front page of the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper announces the election of a home-grown pope. AP
A Chicago-born cardinal walks into a conclave. The rest of the joke tells itself.
In the breathless days since Pope Leo XIV’s election as the first American pontiff, the memes, doctored images and tongue-in-cheek references have piled up deeper than Chicago’s pizza and more loaded than its hot dog, seemingly irresistible to comics and commoners alike.
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