What happened to you at Quigley was not okay.

Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary. The gothic building at Rush and Chestnut, and for twenty-nine years the south campus on Western Avenue, too. If you were a boy there, any year from the 1950s until the doors closed in June 2007, and something happened that you have never quite put down, then yes. This is about you. Nine of the priests the Illinois Attorney General named in 2023 had taught or served at Quigley. In November 2025 a former student took the Archdiocese to court.

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The priest is dead. Six of the nine Quigley names on the Attorney General's list are, and Father Holihan died in 2016. The November 2025 case was never filed against a dead man. It was filed against the Archdiocese of Chicago, which is still at 835 North Rush, in the old Quigley building itself.
You were fourteen and thought you were headed for the priesthood, and the man was your teacher, or your confessor, or the one who gave you a ride home. Say that on the call. It's the situation the record describes.
You never told a soul. Not then, not since. The Attorney General's office heard from more than 600 people statewide, and most of them had carried it for decades before they said a word.
You left after a year, or you stayed and were ordained. Neither one changes anything here.
His name is nowhere on any list, and you've looked. The Archdiocese's list is the Archdiocese's own opinion, in its own words, and four of the eight priests in the settlements it paid this September had never been put on it.
You're a brother, a wife, a grown son asking for someone who can't. Reach out anyway. Plenty of people do.

The Quigley Seminary record: what the public record says, and when

None of what's below is ours. The Attorney General wrote it, and the Archdiocese, and the reporters who covered it, and we link to every line. We don't add to it. A name on a list is that list's finding and nothing more. Nobody on this page was ever convicted of anything, and we don't say otherwise. The November 2025 complaint is a complaint; the Archdiocese has not answered it in public.

November 22, 1994

The Daily Southtown reported that the Archdiocese had told St. Christina parishioners why their former pastor, Father John W. Curran, had really left in 1993: anonymous allegations of sexual misconduct, received in 1990 and 1991, going back 18 to 30 years. The Archdiocese's spokeswoman said those older allegations had not been made public because the alleged abuse did not take place at St. Christina. The article notes that from 1961 to 1966 Curran taught at Quigley South. According to the state's attorney's office no charges had ever been brought; Curran died in 2000. Daily Southtown, via BishopAccountability.org.

June 23, 2007

Quigley closed. It had opened in 1905, moved into the Rush and Chestnut building in 1918, and held about 1,300 boys in the 1950s. It began its last year with 183. The Archdiocese had announced the closing the previous September, citing debt and a student body that had stopped producing priests: one ordination from 3,000 graduates in 17 years. The Philadelphia Inquirer.

May 23, 2023

The Illinois Attorney General released his Report on Catholic Clergy Child Sex Abuse in Illinois: 275 clerics and religious brothers with substantiated allegations in the Archdiocese of Chicago. The report's entries for nine of them list Quigley among their Illinois assignments: Thomas Crosby, John Curran, Walter DeRoeck, Jesus Garza, Roland LeCompte, Edward Maloney, Thomas Mohan, John Rohrich and Russell Romano. Together the report counts 84 reported survivors for the nine, though it does not say where each of them was abused. Of Daniel Holihan, who was never assigned to Quigley, it says the Archdiocese "knew what Holihan was doing to children years before it removed him from the pastorate — but during that time, it did nothing to stop him." Illinois Attorney General, Archdiocese of Chicago.

May 8, 2024

Fox 32 reported that the Archdiocese had settled with a 60-year-old man who says Holihan abused him at Our Lady of the Snows in 1979 and 1980. The amount was not disclosed. Holihan was pastor there until 1990. Fox 32 Chicago.

February 10, 2025

The Archdiocese's own list, Clergy with Allegations of Sexual Abuse of a Minor Substantiated by the Archdiocese, in its current form. It prints each man's assignment history, and Quigley Preparatory Seminary appears in nine of them, the same nine names. It also says, of itself, that a substantiated finding "represents the opinion of the Archdiocese, and is not a legal judgment or determination." We repeat that here on purpose. Archdiocese of Chicago list (PDF).

November 24, 2025

A former Quigley student filed suit against the Archdiocese of Chicago. The complaint alleges that Holihan groomed him at Quigley Preparatory Seminary in the early 1980s, drew him to a cottage in Wonder Lake and the rectory of Our Lady of the Snows, and abused him there. It alleges the Archdiocese already had sexual misconduct reports about Holihan from more than 20 people, going back to the 1960s, and reassigned him instead of removing him. Two more suits were filed the same day over Father Curran at St. Christina. The Archdiocese declined to comment. CBS Chicago.

September 10, 2026

The Sun-Times reported nine settlements with the Archdiocese in two weeks, $5.4 million in all, over eight priests, for abuse alleged between the early 1970s and the late 1990s of children aged 6 to 14. The paper listed each priest with his parish or school, and beside the name Russell Romano it printed Quigley Preparatory Seminary South. The Archdiocese said it has paid more than $400 million to survivors. Sun-Times.

We checked this on September 11, 2026, and the newest thing in it is from September 10, 2026. When something new gets filed or decided, it goes in here within 72 hours, with the link.

Who can be held responsible in a Quigley Seminary lawsuit

The Archdiocese of Chicago, first and mostly. Quigley was never a religious order's school; it was the Archdiocese's own high-school seminary, which means the Archdiocese chose each priest on that faculty, sent him there and, when it wanted to, sent him somewhere else. That's the theory, all of it. You take in boys of thirteen, you had better know who you're standing in front of them. So what did it know? Plenty, if the November 2025 complaint is right: reports about Holihan from more than 20 people, some reaching back into the 1960s, and the Archdiocese's response, the complaint says, was to move him to another assignment. The Attorney General's report, written two years earlier and by a different hand, lands in nearly the same place. Then there's 1994. A reporter asked the Archdiocese's spokeswoman about Curran, and her explanation for why the earlier allegations were never announced was that they hadn't happened at the parish where he was then. Read that twice. If something like that happened to you, the institution answers for it, not only the man.

And the Archdiocese can answer. It has never filed for bankruptcy, there is no claims deadline, and it settles these cases one at a time, in the ordinary course. Nine of them this September. By its own statement it has paid more than $400 million. The priest himself is usually beside the point: six of the nine Quigley names are dead, the other three left the priesthood long ago, and Illinois does not let a punitive claim follow a man into his grave. So these cases are pleaded against what the Archdiocese knew and what it did with that knowledge, not against a dead priest's estate.

One thing to be clear about. The Archdiocese's list says a substantiated allegation is its own opinion, not a legal finding, and we take it at that word. None of the nine men was convicted of a crime. Father Holihan wasn't either; the state's attorney chose not to indict him in 1990, according to the Attorney General's report. What's on this page is what the record says, and no more.

Your deadline: the Illinois statute of limitations for childhood sexual abuse claims

There's no deadline anymore. Illinois pulled it in 2014. A civil claim for childhood sexual abuse, any year, no statute of limitations at all, which is what 735 ILCS 5/13-202.2 says now if you'd rather read it than take our word. That part's real. It does the most work for the last stretch of Quigley boys, the classes from about 1997 through the June 2007 closing.

Here is the catch, and it is why we ask your birth year. The 2014 law did not reach backward. A claim that was already dead under the old rules stayed dead, and the Illinois courts have said so, more than once. That's the whole reason the form asks what year you were born. If it was 1983 or anything after, your claim was still breathing the day the law changed, and you file on age alone, nothing else needed. Born earlier, which is most Quigley alumni, and a lawyer needs a few more facts. When you first understood that what happened caused the harm you carry. Whether anyone at the school or downtown was told, and what they said back. Illinois keeps that second path open when an institution kept quiet, and the man who sued in November 2025 was a Quigley student in the early 1980s. His complaint says he didn't know what the Archdiocese had known until its internal documents came out.

In plain words. For Quigley boys born after 1982 there is no clock at all. For everyone earlier there may still be a way, but it turns on facts only you know. Either way it takes a conversation, not a guess.

Your situation still qualifies even if

You have never said it out loud. Not to your wife, not to a classmate, not even in confession.
You've never had a word for it. Half of you is sure it wouldn't even count.
You were ordained. Some of the men in these cases were.
It was a lay teacher or a coach, not a priest.
It happened off campus, at a cottage, a rectory, a car. The November 2025 complaint describes exactly that.
You live in another state now. Most Quigley alumni do.

Quigley campuses covered

The downtown campus at Rush and Chestnut, Quigley North after 1961, until it closed in June 2007 · Quigley South at 7740 South Western Avenue, from 1961 until it closed in 1990 · trips, retreats and rectory visits that started at either school. A different archdiocesan high school, or a parish? The questions still work. Answer them and say where on the call.

Questions people are asking

Can I sue Quigley Seminary?

Not Quigley as such. The school closed in 2007 and there's nothing left there to sue. You sue the Archdiocese of Chicago, which ran it, and that's who the former student went after in November 2025. Whether you can depends mostly on when you were born and what happened, which is what the questions above sort out.

Is it too late, with Quigley closed since 2007?

Yes. The school closing changes nothing. The Archdiocese of Chicago hired the faculty and assigned them, it's still here, and it keeps settling claims out of schools and parishes that shut decades back.

Which Quigley Seminary priests were accused?

Nine. Crosby, Curran, DeRoeck, Garza, LeCompte, Maloney, Mohan, Rohrich and Romano, each of them on the Illinois Attorney General's 2023 report and on the Archdiocese's own list, each with Quigley somewhere in his assignment history. Father Daniel Holihan, named in the 2025 lawsuit, was never assigned to Quigley but is on both lists as well. A listing is that body's finding, not a conviction, and none of these men was convicted. If your years were under someone else, say so. Lists are never complete.

Has Illinois really dropped the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse?

It has, since January 1, 2014, but with one condition that catches a lot of Quigley alumni: your claim had to still be alive on that date. Lapsed before then, under the old rules? It doesn't come back on its own. A lawyer has to find the discovery or concealment facts that reopen it, which is the only reason the form asks when you were born.

What does a sexual abuse lawyer cost me?

Nothing, here. Every case is on contingency: the lawyer is paid only out of what is recovered, and if nothing is recovered you owe nothing at all. Not for the call, not for the review, not for the case.

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Kerim Eravci · Survivor Advocate · Not a lawyer

I was a victim, and I waited. Not because I didn't know what happened to me (I knew every day), but because I'd decided it was over, mine to carry, nobody's business. When I finally went looking for a lawyer, the answer came back in two words I'd never thought about: statute of limitations. My time had run out while I was busy getting through it.

What that has cost me since is a long story, and I'll tell you the whole thing in private, if you want it. The short version is the reason my name is on this page: I'm here to help people do what I wish I'd done, which is find out where you stand while the door's still open.

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