Burt Constable
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Before moaning about public school fees, look at home-schoolersOct 31, 2021 5:52 pm - My wife and I could buy a 42-inch plasma HDTV with the money we spend on fees required to send our three kids to public schools. There's the "instructional materials" fe...
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Hastert 'the speaker' will always be 'Coach' in his hometownOct 31, 2021 5:39 pm - The crowd was much younger in 1976. More boisterous. Thinner. The occasion happier. But the feelings about the man behind the podium haven't changed that much. "I was a ...
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Space station to make long-distance call to Elgin libraryOct 31, 2021 5:24 pm - In 2005, when the Gail Borden Public Library District in Elgin unveiled a fantastic dinosaur exhibit, Denise Raleigh, the library's director of marketing, development an...
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Thoughtfulness saved life of man who didn't think of othersOct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - It's not so easy to snuff out a life -- when you think about it. After thinking about it for two hours in a room by themselves, a jury of 12 people from different walks ...
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Suburbanites will always carry sadness for Brown's victimsOct 31, 2021 4:11 pm - One piece of the puzzling murder that has haunted the suburbs since a cold, bleak January night in 1993 finally fit into place Thursday just as a sunny, glorious May aft...
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Whims of time take toll on lifelong writerApr 24, 2012 6:16 am - Editor’s note: This column originally published May 29, 2003 This is the kind of compelling human story Bill Granger was made to tell. Instead, Granger sits in the Illin...
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Our country may have to rethink what it means to be secureSep 11, 2011 7:20 am - (Editor's note: This column originally appeared in the Sept. 12, 2001, editions of the Daily Herald.) We are no longer the America we were. As the twin towers of th...
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Gombos’ long, lonely quest ends today with little fanfareJul 03, 2013 2:26 pm - Editor’s note: This column originally ran Nov. 5, 1996. For the last eight years, Ed Gombos has poured every ounce of inspiration and perspiration into his dream of runn...
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Murders recall tragic deaths of firefightersNov 18, 2021 11:10 pm - Originally published Jan. 17, 1993 The moments are etched in Palatine's history. The public outpouring of emotion for the dead. The pulling together of a close-knit comm...
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Mourners struggle to find peace in the face of griefNov 18, 2021 11:09 pm - Originally published Jan. 14, 1993 On a day when nature wrapped everything in a serene, white blanket of snow, grieving loved ones draped a white cloth over the casket c...