The Chicago native is also a Peruvian citizen and lived for years in Peru, first as a missionary and then as an archbishop.

Cesar Velasquez-Munoz, 20, of Peoria previously pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiracy to transport illegal aliens for profit placing in jeopardy the life of any person, according to the U.S.

Although any baptized Catholic man is technically eligible to be the pope, none of the previous 266 popes in history had been from America.