Burt Constable
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Constable: As he turns 100, WWII vet reflects on 50 missions he'll never forgetJul 07, 2022 6:19 am - Riding the streetcar in his hometown of Gary, Indiana, toward a future working in the steel mills, Vic Erdelac got off one stop early. "I wasn't going to do that," says ...
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Constable: Divided Americans still driving together across common groundJul 01, 2022 8:00 am - As my wife and I throw one small suitcase into our Prius for a quick trip to see good friends in Nashville, Tennessee, we have a lot more emotional baggage to bring with...
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Constable: Chef cooks up kitchen-inspired hairnets for dogsJun 29, 2022 6:14 am - A sous chef for most of his career, Freddy Rembert of Villa Park drew on his kitchen experience to create his unusual, award-winning invention that's appearing now in l...
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Constable: New suicide prevention network tailored to help HispanicsJun 26, 2022 7:58 am - Palatine mom Gabriela "Gabi" Vargas, 35, knows the hopeless feeling that can envelop people in a world where they don't feel they belong. So does Alejandro "A.J." Ramire...
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Constable: Trailblazing Deerfield rabbi still in pursuit of the spiritualJun 23, 2022 10:45 am - There were no female rabbis when Karyn Kedar was a kid, and that didn't matter. "I wanted to be a rabbi when I was 8 years old," says Kedar, 65, who recently retired aft...
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Constable: Trailblazing rabbi retires from Deerfield temple but not from spiritual pursuitsJun 23, 2022 10:36 am - There were no female rabbis when Karyn Kedar was a kid, and that didn't matter. “I wanted to be a rabbi when I was 8 years old,” says Kedar, 65, who recently retired aft...
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Constable: Battery-powered LVAD dad celebrates the holidaysJun 21, 2022 6:17 am - Look! Up at that calendar! It's Father's Day! It's Juneteenth! It's LVAD Dad Day! While there's no official holiday for the last of these, every day is LVAD Dad Day for ...
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Constable: After years of rejection, Palatine man writes crossword puzzle for New York TimesJun 16, 2022 6:31 am - His first rejection came on Sept. 18, 2007. "They wrote a really nice letter." says Rob Baker of Palatine, who had charted out a crossword puzzle on graph paper, stuck i...
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Constable: 'Miracle on the tarmac' baby turning 30Jun 14, 2022 6:26 am - Thirty years ago Sunday, Harry and Lynne Nozicka of Glenview were shopping for island hats to protect them from the sun on their “last hurrah” vacation three months befo...
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Constable: It's a busy life for dentist-actor-soldier-dad-filmmakerJun 24, 2022 11:40 am - By Burt Constable bconstable@dailyherald.com Addison dentist and actor Patrick Brambert, a husband and father of two, was completing his Army National Guard basic traini...