Burt Constable
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Palatine brothers' deportation put on holdJun 21, 2011 12:00 am - A month ago, the Robles brothers of Palatine were designated for deportation and in danger of being plucked from promising college careers and sent back to their native ...
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Cherished moments that dad will forgetJun 19, 2011 12:00 am - They relish the old stories, this father and sons. Joe Fabbiano, 87, smiles as he recalls how his young boys, Al and Mike, always loved to hide in the hamper, where thei...
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Arlington Hts. family hails civil rights decisionJun 15, 2011 12:00 am - As the federal judge announces a landmark civil rights ruling giving people with developmental disabilities the freedom to move from institutions into community settings...
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Palatine-based charity donates $100,000 to urban farmJun 15, 2011 12:00 am - Making good on a pledge to find 100 women to donate $1,000 each, members of the new Palatine-based Impact 100 Chicago charity voted Tuesday night to award $100,000 to an...
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126 suburban women, $126,000, 1 charityJun 14, 2011 12:00 am - The idea behind the new Palatine-based Impact 100 Chicago charity is simple, says president Marybeth Lernihan. Get 100 women to donate $1,000 each and then make good on ...
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Prospect High grad gets class ring lost for 46 yearsJun 12, 2011 12:00 am - When a class ring missing since 1965 showed up on her desk, Prospect High School dean of students Patricia Tedaldi Monti accepted the challenge with a dogged determinati...
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Arlington Heights man finds cash outside bankJun 09, 2011 12:00 am - Having just finished his shift Monday afternoon as a hospital heating and cooling engineer, Robert J. Adams headed to Señor Taco in a Rolling Meadows strip mall for an i...
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Author's job of balancing nature and suburbs mirrors ThoreauJun 06, 2011 12:00 am - When author Tom Montgomery Fate talks about working on his new book during one of his solitary nights in the cabin his family helped build in the Michigan woods, it's ea...
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Saddling horse racing with slot machinesJun 05, 2011 12:00 am - Hailed as the sport of kings, horse racing may soon need to set aside a part of its castle for the slot-machine serfs. A bill allowing slot machines at Arlington Park as...
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Ceremony forges Illinois' first civil unionsJun 02, 2011 12:00 am - In a park named for the future, a new era arrived in Illinois on Thursday when 36 same-sex couples celebrated their newfound legal rights in a ceremony made possible by ...