Berwyn News

I grew up in Berwyn, Ill., a Chicago suburb about 10 miles southwest of the Loop, during the 1940's and 1950's. Like other suburbs, Berwyn residents tended to vote Republican.

These symptoms will give you a heads-up if you are pregnant, says WomanCare Services of Berwyn, IL.

Lower tax revenues with unemployment approaching 10 percent have forced some Illinois towns and municipalities to cut back on fireworks, as CNN.com reports : In Illinois, CNN affiliate WLS-TV reported that Harvey, Berwyn, Elgin, Gurnee and North Riverside had canceled their shows.

The supergroup WPA was born out of the community of musicians who hang around the legendary Los Angeles club Largo.

What's a July Fourth celebration without fireworks? Many cities across the United States will find out Saturday.

The weak economy has taken the spark out of some July 4th celebrations. Some suburbs have canceled their annual fireworks displays.

Fireworks shows are being canceled or scaled back in some small and midsize cities, as municipalities' tax revenue dries up.

Berwyn's 4th of July fireworks display has been canceled for this year.

Jun 30, 2009 9:06 am US/Central The Saturday murder of a Berwyn man occurred inside a sport-utility vehicle registered to a man who was recently awarded a record $21 million by a federal jury after he spent 11 years in prison for a murder conviction that was later overturned.

Four alleged gang members were wounded during a Sunday afternoon knife fight in west suburban Cicero.

The McDonald's restaurant at Oak Street and Harlem Avenue in River Forest, 626 N. Harlem Ave., closed for construction in early June and is set to reopen in September or October, McDonald's communications manager Julie Caturano said.

The venerable FitzGerald's Night Club in Berwyn is known for its outstanding live music, from singer-songwriters to jazz orchestras to rock bands and country.

Cell phone texting is now being used to target Chicago-area women searching for advice and services regarding birth control and abortion, reports WomanCare Services of Berwyn.

I took this photo on location at the Ridgeland Avenue railroad crossing, in west suburban Berwyn Illinois.

John Sisto knew the items he bought, now worth an estimated $10 million, had been taken illegally from archaeological sites or stolen Hundreds of stolen Italian antiquities and documents, from 2,500-year-old pottery to a sample of Benito Mussolini's handwriting, have been returned by the FBI.

A two-year investigation of religious artifacts and relics found in the home of an Illinois collector in 2007 has determined that 1,600 of them were stolen, the Web site ChicagoBreakingNews.com reported.

Joseph Sisto wanted none of it, not one piece of his father's collection. Not the 6th century B.C. pottery, not the 12th century parchments marked with papal seals, not the document handwritten by Benito Mussolini.

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Thousands of stolen Italian artifacts that were found in a Berwyn home, including letters written by popes and kings, will be returned to Italy, FBI officials said today.

The FBI on Monday showed off a cache of ancient artifacts that a suburban Chicago man apparently hoarded in his home for decades, but no one is quite sure why.