Burt Constable
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A suburban dad embraces Father's Day after beating cancerJun 17, 2012 8:00 am - The best gift Sam and Alison Summins will give their dad today is the expectation that they will celebrate lots more Father's Days together. “No doubt about it,” said a ...
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Words matter, and so do jargon, slang and dialectJun 12, 2012 5:45 am - Proclaiming that an NBA playoff game ended in a tie earns a TV anchor a viral Internet mocking, because everyone (well, almost everyone) knows that NBA playoff games mus...
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Wheeling childhood shaped Vernon Hills mom's public service careerJun 11, 2012 1:00 pm - While a student at Northern Illinois University in 1972, Kathy Schultz urged her friends to join her as she set off to meet the candidates for Illinois governor. "Why?"...
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Priest from Palatine's West Side miracleJun 09, 2012 11:00 pm - Landing Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel in his corner takes the sort of skills Christopher Devron might have parlayed into a high-paying partnership with a downtown law firm ...
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Lombard boy part of Children's Hospital moveJun 09, 2012 10:00 am - The stress-filled, life-or-death drama of waiting for a new heart still overshadows everything in 5½-year-old Tim Grobart's life. But his dad says the Lombard boy is hap...
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From here to Mars, Bradbury's legacy enduresJun 07, 2012 5:30 am - A prolific and versatile writer whose career spanned many genres and seven decades, Waukegan-born Ray Bradbury is remembered as an author who brought science fiction and...
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Walmart vs. the $1.2 million RV in Glen EllynJun 04, 2012 11:00 pm - If you don't know these worlds existed, you can't begin to guess what happens when they collide. Even a master in the art of traveling by RV, who knows the lingo and is ...
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Wheeling childhood shaped Vernon Hills mom’s public service careerMay 31, 2012 5:52 pm - While a student at Northern Illinois University in 1972, Kathy Schultz urged her friends to join her as she set off to meet the candidates for Illinois governor. “Why?” ...
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'Honest Abe v T-Rex' a prelim to 'Illinois v border states'May 30, 2012 11:00 pm - We all move to the suburbs in the pursuit of happiness - or at least better schools, safer neighborhoods, affordable homes and the like. But when it comes to vacations, ...
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Indy 500 habit drives West Dundee fan for more than six decadesMay 26, 2012 11:00 pm - It's hard to compile an exact number, what with the time trials, crashes, blown engines and rain, but since he began his annual Memorial Day pilgrimage to the Indianapol...