The exhibit will also display documents preceding the four meetings between President Reagan and Pope John Paul II, dresses and other outfits worn by Nancy Reagan during her meetings with the Pope.

Pope John Paul II arrived in the U.S. on Monday, Oct. 1, 1979 — touching down in Boston, and stopping in New York, Philadelphia, and Des Moines before arriving in Chicago on Thursday, Oct. 4.

Pope John Paul II got his own Christmas tree Wednesday, hand delivered from his native Poland by a group of mountaineers from the Tatra mountains. The group, dressed in traditional colorful ...