When Robert Francis Prevost spoke in Spanish to his crowd of supporters for the first time in St. Peter’s Square last week, Edgewater resident Julio Fernandez said it made him tear up. “I’ve lived in Chicago for many years. And that he is from both places makes me double proud,” Fernandez, 74, a retired doctor from northern Peru, said.

The pontiff broke the news on "NBC Nightly News" with anchor Lester Holt, a former CBS2 Chicago anchor, in a brief one-on-one chat at the Vatican Monday.