Exactly 35 years ago this weekend, Pope John Paul II came to Chicago, celebrated an open-air Mass in Grant Park before the largest crowd gathered in city history and won over the hearts of the area's Catholics and not a few of the non-Catholics.
Not that those hearts weren't already his anyway. An alderman eyeing a mayoral bid couldn't have put together a better campaign to woo Chicagoans than what the pope fashioned in the months, weeks and days before his visit.
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