Burt Constable
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Passion, not need, fuels sales of $690 'driving shoes'Feb 13, 2012 11:00 pm - As he prepares himself for Monday's pilgrimage to the Chicago Auto Show, Hugh E. Ruthven II of Barrington doesn't break out the driving duds he owns and sells for a livi...
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Family, teammates, pupils say goodbye to slain Naperville teacherFeb 08, 2012 11:00 pm - The small-town Milwaukee suburb that always has embraced Shaun Wild and his family welcomed hundreds of mourners from the 24-year-old teacher's life in Naperville on Thu...
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Illinois isn't ready if (or when) the big quake hitsFeb 08, 2012 10:00 pm - If you haven't done all the earthquake preparation suggested as part of this week's Great Central U.S. ShakeOut, you aren't alone. Neither has our government, which laun...
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A little knowledge can complicate football and shoppingFeb 06, 2012 10:00 pm - Even though you are a Bears fan and your opinion about the Super Bowl holds even less clout than a Donald Trump presidential endorsement, you rooted for likable, scruffy...
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Waukegan black man grew up believing he was whiteFeb 05, 2012 6:45 am - Simmering racial tensions between blacks and whites in the suburbs sometimes boiled over during the 1970s. But Michael Fosberg says he always considered himself a white ...
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Do Super Bowl, church and Madonna mix?Feb 01, 2012 10:00 pm - If you watched an NFL game this season, you got treated to more player prayer circles, pious hand-holding, pregame head-bowing, heaven-pointing gratitude, sideline Tebow...
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Composer makes music from Fermilab buzz, Bensenville junkJan 30, 2012 10:00 pm - At most suburban workplaces, the droning background sounds consist of keyboard clicks, phone chirps, chair squeaks, the occasional clank of a Diet Dr Pepper can tumbling...
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Schaumburg man doesn't let his loss of speech crush his spiritJan 29, 2012 6:30 am - The sight of me standing outside his front door in Schaumburg sends Steve Riedner into one of his belly-shaking, blue eyes-a-twinkling chuckles. He points to the jaunty,...
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Wrapped in 'comfort quilt,' family gives life to memoriesJan 25, 2012 11:00 pm - With their dad sick from kidney cancer and nobody able to do anything to stop it, 9-year-old Adelaide Riedesel and her twin brother, Harrison, poured themselves into a l...
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Market extinguished, but matchbooks still spark memoriesJan 18, 2012 10:00 pm - In a corner kitchen cabinet, tucked behind the easy-to-forget-we-have olive tray and next to my not-sure-why-we-still-have college fraternity mug lies a cache of memorie...