Burt Constable
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'It takes a team,' Garth Brooks tells kids at Elk Grove High SchoolSep 05, 2014 11:00 pm - Many of the young Teammate ProCamp basketball players weren't even born when country music superstar Garth Brooks quit performing more than a decade ago. But they cheere...
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Pizza truce over as East Coast poll takes shot at ChicagoSep 03, 2014 1:00 am - During the great pizza war of 2013, Marc Malnati flew to New York to break bread — well, a Lou Malnati's cheesy deep-dish pizza — with “The Daily Show's” Jon Stewart, wh...
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Elk Grove Village girl pursues dolphin trainer dreamAug 30, 2014 11:00 pm - As an idealistic young boy in rural Indiana, I vowed to grow up to be the starting second-baseman on the Chicago Cubs team that would win all those World Series champion...
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Late columnist's spy novel hits silver screenAug 27, 2014 1:01 am - I don't know what the late Bill Granger would have written about one of his novels finally being made into "The November Man" film starring Pierce Brosnan. But I do know...
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Girl who used periwinkle to best leukemia blossoms into comicAug 24, 2014 7:30 am - In 1998, 8-year-old Lisa Mongillo of Arlington Heights took a Make-A-Wish trip to Hawaii to see the periwinkle flower used to make one of the leukemia drugs doctors hoped would save her life. Now, she's a comedian in a two-woman show and works for a charity that helps kids.
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Constable: National Guard recruiting, roles evolvingAug 20, 2014 1:00 am - Quaint and easy to remember, the National Guard's once-popular recruiting slogan just disappeared after Sept. 11, 2001. “Oh, it certainly did,” says Lt. Col. Daniel A. R...
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Constable: Brace yourself for World War Zucchini!Aug 19, 2014 5:30 am - They are here. They show up on your front steps. Leave your car unlocked, and you are liable to find a few of them on your passenger seat when you return. Well-meaning f...
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Constable: Worried refugees in suburbs help families in IraqAug 17, 2014 7:30 am - The small Glen Ellyn studio apartment of this former Iraqi refugee sports a couch, a bed, a coffee table, a stone fountain he made, several pictures of Jesus and an empt...
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Pole dancers strip away stereotypes in championshipAug 14, 2014 5:30 am - This is not your pervy uncle's pole dancing - with leering men stuffing dollar bills into g-strings of topless women grinding on a stage to Def Leppard's "Pour Some Suga...
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Barrington veteran creates charity to help spouses of woundedAug 12, 2014 5:30 am - Five days before the military leave that was to take him from Afghanistan to be at his wife's side for the birth of his son, Breg Hughes caught fire. The highly trained ...