CHICAGO (WLS) -- On a beautiful Tuesday evening in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, excitement is building for a group of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy students, who are getting ready for Wednesday's papal audience.

An ABC7 crew was on the flight with some of those students and Cardinal Blase Cupich. From the gate at O'Hare Airport to their tour of Vatican City and Rome, their energy is only growing.

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Swapping Lakeview for Vatican views, the students part of a class project gone viral are now walking the same places and spaces of the Catholic cardinals they once dressed up as.

"I get emotional when I think about it," said Allison Foerster, who teaches at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Academy.

And on Wednesday, they will get to s

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