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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Goofy brothers get serious about fighting cancer

Feb 10 2013 | 9:37 pm - Brothers Tom and Bill Latourette have been competitive since they were kids. So when the suburban dads took to the golf course to raise a few bucks for a friend with cancer, they vowed to raise more the next year. A dozen years and nearly $400,000...

Sure of wife choice, guys still fret about engagement ring

Feb 07 2013 | 5:06 am - When superstar performing artist Justin Timberlake asked actress Jessica Biel to be his wife, he presented her with a custom-made diamond engagement ring he designed himself. Biel gushed to celebrity magazines about Timberlake's artistic flair with...

Suburbs rise, join billion dancing women to change world

Feb 05 2013 | 5:33 am - On the most romantic day of the year, groups around the suburbs will rise up, speak out and dance as part of a worldwide effort to end violence against women. Says 71-year-old Mary Shesgreen, one of the organizers and a longtime member of Fox Valley...

Hawthorn Woods man preserving history

Feb 03 2013 | 4:58 pm - Jim Dryden was a boy when he received a Japanese sword his uncle brought back from World War II. Now nearing retirement, the Hawthorn Woods man has ammassed a collection or more than 100,000 war items and hopes to open a museum. “It's a...

Girls add to growth of robotics competition

Feb 02 2013 | 6:34 pm - Girl power flexed some muscle at the annual Vex robotics competition in Batavia Saturday, with a good number of all-female teams competing this year. “We’re seeing more and more girls realizing they can compete in the man’s...

Mom 86s fear of our family's fatal birthday curse

Jan 31 2013 | 5:24 am - Mom, my sisters and I knew we really couldn't believe in our family curse, even with the overwhelming mountain of evidence supporting it, columnist Burt Constable writes. In the year leading up to Mom's 86th birthday on Jan. 28, the curse crept...

Elk Grove teen’s idea blossoms into pizza for 488,000 troops

Jan 27 2013 | 11:28 am - In 2008, retired Air Force Sgt. Mark Evans of Elk Grove Village wanted to ship pizzas to the soldiers fighting in the Middle East. An effort that started with a goal of 300 pizzas has shipped more than 122,000 pizzas to troops overseas."God has...

Local students win money for duck calls, aluminum

Jan 24 2013 | 10:04 am - High-schoolers (or at least their parents) constantly are on the prowl for college scholarships. Most involve lots of writing and little money. But to win a scholarship from a trade organization in Wauconda, all you have to do is is come up with a...

Local wildlife refuge grows from grass-roots passion

Jan 22 2013 | 5:31 am - The giddy celebration for local folks came earlier this month on a warm, sun-kissed day at the nation’s first wildlife refuge on Florida’s Pelican Island. Adding a plank reading “Hackmatack” to the boardwalk, Secretary of the...

Wimpy winter teaches Plainfield teens cold facts of business

Jan 20 2013 | 6:55 am - The Blizzard of 2011 financed everything from an iPad and expensive new baseball equipment to shovels and a snowblower for two pals who launched their Shovel Boys business that year. Now grizzled teens, the Shovel Boys are trying to survive a nearly...

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