Burt Constable
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Missing Griffin a year after car crash, family focuses on lifeDec 08, 2012 10:00 pm - Photographs of Griffin and Nicholas Shirey line the walls of their home in Island Lake. There are the twin boys as babies. There they are dressed as matching cowboys for...
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Fire guts Des Plaines home, cat savedDec 08, 2012 12:17 pm - Firefighters rescued a cat from an overnight fire Saturday in Des Plaines, but the fire left the home uninhabitable, forcing the couple and their cat into a motel. A man...
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Crowd cheers as Walsh hints at continuing political careerDec 08, 2012 12:00 pm - Having started his successful campaign three years ago with a rousing town hall meeting, recently defeated Congressman Joe Walsh vowed to go out the same way. At his fin...
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Fire destroys vacant homeDec 08, 2012 11:31 am - An early morning fire Saturday destroyed a large, unoccupied home in Wadsworth. “It was a significant fire. It was a total loss,” said Mark Kirschhoffer, fire chief of t...
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Santo's widow backs diabetes-alert dogs 'Ron would have loved'Dec 04, 2012 4:30 am - On the second anniversary of Ron Santo's death Monday, the Cubs legend's widow says that she couldn't be more excited about “extending his legacy” by pushing a cause “Ro...
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Richard Dent talks about life after football, concussionsDec 02, 2012 4:53 am - “The Sackman’s comin’, I’m your man Dent. If the quarterback’s slow, he’s gonna get bent.” — Richard Dent’s introduction in “Super Bowl Shuffle” video by 1985 Chicago Be...
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One reader kick-starts area toy drive to help childrenNov 29, 2012 4:30 am - A few days before Thanksgiving, Walt Meder phones me as he does every once in a while with the latest of his ideas to make the world a little better. The 90-year-old Arl...
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Black Friday, Cyber Monday give way to #Giving TuesdayNov 27, 2012 4:00 am - After feeding our economic gluttony with heaping helpings of commercialism on Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday, stuffed Americans could use a littl...
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Three teenage sons add to Constable cornucopia of thanksNov 22, 2012 5:30 am - Thanksgiving has taken on extra meaning around our house ever since that Thanksgiving of 1995 when my wife, Cheryl, spent the holiday giving birth to our twin sons, Ross...
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Thanksgiving Eve big bar night in the suburbsNov 19, 2012 10:00 pm - It's the difference between choosing to be up late and having to be up late. On Thanksgiving Eve at my house, the five of us are busy with last-minute dusting, table-set...