Burt Constable
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Woman with disabilities enjoys sunny days, but funding cloudyAug 24, 2009 11:00 pm - Sitting tall and straight on her folding chair at a long table in a workshop in an industrial park in Palatine, Laura Hill scans a room filled with people just like her....
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Astrology column might be kinder if Pluto were in the houseAug 21, 2009 11:00 pm - Horoscopes for today, August 22. Sagittarius (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) If you are an astrologer attending the "Astrology's Value to Society and the Individual" international con...
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Road from vacation back to real world could use a rest stopAug 19, 2009 11:00 pm - My morning commutes from the ocean to the beach during my family's vacation in the Outer Banks of North Carolina offer a different type of stress. "Big wave! Big wave!" ...
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'Pair' tree enhances support for breast cancer walkersAug 06, 2009 11:00 pm - The "pair" tree in the Doro family's front yard is (as I can barely observe without chuckling like a 14-year-old boy) certainly uplifting, even if some of the homemade f...
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Unguarded look into family life of a civilian soldierAug 05, 2009 11:00 pm - Settling back into work and normal suburban life can be a challenge for people returning from one week of a carefree summer vacation somewhere fun. So imagine the toll t...
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Antique hunter discovers treasure that is Fountain ParkAug 03, 2009 11:00 pm - For years, I've tried to explain the joys of my family's annual pilgrimage to Fountain Park Chautauqua in rural Indiana, and failed. I tell people it's a circle of 73 ru...
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New book celebrates the joys of seeing redAug 02, 2009 11:00 pm - As the home of President Barack Obama, Illinois has a reputation as a blue state. But not for author Nicole Giladi. "Illinois was my reddest state," say Giladi, author o...
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Decades after murder, politics, errors - the smile enduresJul 29, 2009 11:00 pm - Editor's Note: Immediately after Brian Dugan was officially charged in 2005 with Jeanine Nicarico's murder, Burt Constable visited the child's grave for a remembranc...
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All goes dark? Find a spot on your Jupiter? Don't panicJul 22, 2009 11:00 pm - The problem with writing a prescient End of the World column is that neither the columnist nor his audience will be around for the ultimate "We're so sorry we doubted yo...
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If you close your eyes, you might still smell corn dogsJul 20, 2009 11:00 pm - If you are directing one of those slasher horror movies where a bunch of sex-charged teenagers don't realize there is anything sinister about the old, abandoned fairgrou...