Area residents can make a splash for a good cause this weekend by participating in the 10th Annual Wacky Quacky Duck Splash, a fundraising event taking place Saturday in Proksa Park as part of the Berwyn Park District’s Carnival of Fun.

Having studied America’s mortgage meltdown and the parties who struck the match, it’s hard to resist cheering the reckoning for Countrywide Financial Corp. Call it subprime schadenfreude.

Happy new fiscal year! Yep, it’s July 1 and the start of another glorious year in money for the state of Illinois.

For the past couple of years, Berwyn’s Cartopia weekend has been a time to celebrate the creativity of car enthusiasts and artists alike, Berwyn Arts Council chairman Jon Fey says.

Faster than you could say “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes,” restaurants and grocery stores began yanking Roma and red plum varieties off their tables and shelves amid a nationwide outbreak of salmonella.

Annette Pardun grew up in Berwyn enjoying the parades and attending the summer festivals the area behind Cermak Plaza hosts year after year.

The June 13 death of "Meet the Press" moderator Tim Russert was notable not only because of his fame: The 58-year-old's heart attack was startling and sudden. One minute he was recording voice-overs. The next he collapsed.

An incident of miscommunication involving U.S. Rep. Bill Foster, D-14th District, shows how even good intentions can have bad results. Foster agreed to attend a May 16 student assembly at Community High School in West Chicago, and the school believed this would be a newsworthy event. An invitation was sent May 12 via e-mail to Suburban Life Publications to send a reporter and photographer to cover the assembly.

If Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s administration wasn’t motivated to get its arms around the state’s chronic Medicaid payment backlog before, the pressure is really on now.

Not surprisingly, the leadership in Iraq has put off efforts by the United States to draft a security agreement intended to define the role of American troops in Iraq for the months and years to come.

Dozens of motorcyclists and classic car enthusiasts roared through Berwyn streets on Saturday as a part of an annual health research fundraiser.

Memorial Day is an annual reminder that calls to our attention the great debt of gratitude we owe all those who have served in the nation’s armed forces. They have served in every time of pain, confusion, doubt and outright attack in the nation’s history.

If Gov. Rod Blagojevich's administration wasn't motivated to get its arms around the state's chronic Medicaid payment backlog before -- despite chiding from the comptroller and from this page -- the pressure is really on now.

Americans have begun receiving their much-awaited stimulus checks from the federal government, though they may have spent them several times over in their heads while they waited.

If Illinois is serious about a mammoth plan for public construction and repair projects, it’s time we part with the notion that we can have something for nothing.