Issue of January 20, 2002

Three new Catholic elementary schools will open in Chicago and 14 city and suburban schools will close this summer as part of a plan to make the archdiocese’s school system stronger and more efficient, if a bit smaller.

The plan, in development since the arrival last year of new schools Superintendent Nicholas M. Wolsonovich, also calls for the consolidation of two North Side schools, along with related religious education and adult formation programs. Read more...

School closing, consolidation list

Goodbye Chicago, hello Tucson
Road to Tucson began at North Side parish
The path that led Gerald Frederick Kicanas to St. Augustine’s Cathedral in Tucson, Ariz., began Aug. 18, 1941 on the North Side of Chicago. The son of Fred and Eva Kicanas, he and his two sisters grew up in Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish. Read more...

Parishioners in Vicariate I sad to see him go
When word came that Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas had been appointed coadjutor to the Diocese of Tucson, “It was like his mother said in the story in the Tucson paper,” said Father William Zavaski, pastor of St. James Parish in Arlington Heights. “We were devastated.” Read more...

Bishop left his mark on archdiocesan seminary
Before being named an auxiliary bishop of Chicago, then-Father Gerald F. Kicanas served for many years—and left his mark—on the seminary system of the Archdiocese of Chicago. Those who served with him at Quigley Preparatory Seminary South and Mundelein Seminary remember him as a multi-talented, energetic and caring person with a phenomenal memory for names. Read more...