Gregory Royal Pratt

Raised in Little Village, Gregory Royal Pratt is an investigative reporter. He has been a finalist for the Livingston and earned recognition from the National Headliner Awards, the Lisagors, and Scripps Howard. He is the author of “The City is Up for Grabs: How Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Led and Lost a City in Crisis.”

The newly elected Pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, formerly Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost, is seen for the first time from the Vatican balcony on May 8, 2025, in Vatican City. (Antonio Masiello/Getty)

Robert Prevost was ‘the pride and joy of every priest and nun’ at St. Mary’s on Chicago’s South Side

May 8, 2025 at 1:38 p.m.

Prevost’s Catholic roots were planted in Chicago’s south suburbs.

David Sperlein, shown with his wife, Jeannine, at their home in Manchester, Maryland, was in need of a lung transplant during a period when a flaw in the distribution process put patients with type O blood at a disadvantage. He received a donor lung in January. (Jerry Jackson/Baltimore Sun)

Error in new lung transplant algorithm harmed sick and dying patients

July 1, 2024 at 1:31 p.m.

A flawed new algorithm for distributing lungs to transplant patients wound up putting people with Type O blood at a disadvantage.

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