Burt Constable
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Wary of media spin, Naperville man visits Obama churchApr 30, 2008 11:00 pm - It seems like only yesterday that the people working frantically to derail Barack Obama were telling us his membership at Trinity United Church of Christ was just a guis...
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Elia hopes to use famous tirade in fight against cancerApr 28, 2008 11:00 pm - Then-Cubs manager Lee Elia's 1983 tirade is to swearing what Michelangelo's David is to sculpture. Working with the medium of bile instead of marble, Elia's improvised, ...
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April Fool's Day dummy falls 10 stories, lands in courtApr 25, 2008 11:00 pm - The judge in Rolling Meadows courtroom 209 methodically doles out justice to the typical collection of people with tickets for overweight trucks and underage smoking. Th...
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Funeral solution shows there's something about St. MaryApr 23, 2008 11:00 pm - With Mother's Day approaching, Joy Morris of Huntley wanted to fulfill her mom's last wish. "I made this promise to my mom," Morris says, recalling their conversation af...
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Browning's earthquake prediction just 6,346 days lateApr 18, 2008 11:00 pm - My wife woke up Friday morning already wearing her "Earthquake Survivor" T-shirt. Spooky, eh? Some suburbanites are still shaken after being stirred awake early Friday b...
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Wild Kingdom comes to town, but remain calmApr 16, 2008 11:00 pm - Like many of you, when I saw those stories of cougar-sightings in the suburbs, my first thought was that the "Sex and the City" cast was in town doing a promotional tour...
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Son's birthday party dodgeball leaves one of us in stitchesApr 14, 2008 11:00 pm - Five minutes before we should leave Sunday for our youngest son's 9th-birthday party -- a 16-kid dodgeball extravaganza -- I load the treats and goody bags into the fami...
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Turns out that guy with the skulls hoodie can empathizeApr 11, 2008 11:00 pm - For the past two years, these families waged an emotional and energetic crusade to make people realize the value of building a $12 million early learning center in Barri...
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Readers' long slog of waiting for my apology to BushApr 09, 2008 11:00 pm - Wednesday, on the fifth anniversary of "The Fall of Baghdad," I searched Youtube and watched old news videos of Saddam Hussein's statue being toppled -- remembering th...
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Come November, Illinois voters could say, 'Yes, we con con'Apr 07, 2008 11:00 pm - The word of the year for 2008 has to be "change." It's been shouted from the mountaintops of the presidential campaigns where candidates promise something better. And it...