Burt Constable

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Burt Constable grew up on a farm in Goodland, Ind., where he learned how to plant, cultivate, rotary hoe and be fearful of cows. He is a 1976 graduate of South Newton High School, and graduated from Northwestern University in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in journalism.

Burt worked for the Lafayette (Ind.) Journal & Courier and the Washington (Iowa) Evening Journal before becoming police reporter with the Daily Herald in 1981. He worked as a copy editor and later covered courts, crime and some sports and general assignment stories before becoming a full-time columnist in 1988 alongside legendary Chicago columnist Jack Mabley.

He has won several awards, generally for covering tragedies. Burt and his wife have three sons and live in the suburbs.

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With these temperature swings, only strong flowers survive

May 14 2013 | 12:09 pm - Shutting off the heat and switching on the air-conditioning? Plants at Morton Arboretum in Lisle tried to fight off a freeze early Monday morning but will bask in 80-degree temperatures today. "All those hanging baskets people get for Mother's Day,...

It took a team to save this baby and his mom

May 12 2013 | 6:17 am - As a pregnant teenager, Sofia Espinoza lugged her backpack and extra weight up and down the stairs at Addison Trail High School. She took advantage of pregnancy advice from school counselors, graduated early and married her boyfriend, Juan Carlos...

Wheeling neighborhood grieves for slain bystander

May 09 2013 | 6:25 pm - The sky is just as blue as it was on the last day of Rafael Orozco's life. The grass might be an even brighter green. And Gizmo, Orozco's muscular pit bull the color of milk chocolate, still rounds the corner of this Wheeling apartment building with...

Reality TV date show doesn't alter single mom's priorities

May 07 2013 | 5:15 am - Suburban mom Renee Trikolas used to envision herself celebrating Mother's Day as part of a perfect family. Now, she is a single mom who reinvented herself, runs her own jewelry business and appears in a dating segment airing Thursday on Steve...

Triple amputee wants Boston victims to know it gets better

May 06 2013 | 6:54 am - It wasn't a bomb blast, but a nearly fatal bout of Legionnaires' disease that led to the amputations of Kent Carson's left arm and both legs last year. Now the Round Lake Beach man is walking, working on driving again and would love to visit the...

Barrington doodler could see her art on Google homepage

May 02 2013 | 5:11 am - Most Americans are familiar with those imaginative doodles that grace the Google homepage each day. But in a suprise schoolwide assembly Wednesday, a girl at Barrington Middle School at Station Campus learned her artwork is a finalist in a...

Deadlier than murders and car crashes, suicide is often a secret

Apr 30 2013 | 8:24 am - Americans worry about getting murdered. Daily crime stories put the fear of an attack in our heads. Yet, you or a loved one are far more likely to die of the violence we often don't talk about: suicide.

Wildfire franchise out to make Ultimate a pro sport staple

Apr 29 2013 | 12:41 pm - A free-spirited game that started with a Frisbee as a laid-back alternative to most organized sports, Ultimate has gone big time. The Windy City Wildfire, our new local team in the professional American Ultimate Disc League, boasts a world-class...

Reporter’s tool to find worst job? Mirror, says survey

Apr 25 2013 | 5:37 am - Experts say we newspaper reporters have the worst job in America. Actuaries, whose society is based in Schaumburg, have the best, once again. But there is more to a job than pay, stress, hours and a bright future. People in last place often are more...

Harry Volkman weathers wild Chicago climate

Apr 21 2013 | 1:15 am - Imagine a time when broadcasting tornado warnings was forbidden. Legendary TV meteorologist Harry Volkman of Itasca, who turned 87 this week, recalls the time he violated FCC rules by becoming the first weathercaster to issue a tornado warning on TV.

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