Burt Constable
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Constable: Pandemic brings us 'Honey, I shrunk the Holiday Housewalk'Dec 12, 2020 12:00 am - YouTube With the 2020 pandemic scuttling the Mount Prospect Historical Society's 33rd Annual Holiday Housewalk, the group is using a new idea and toys from the past to s...
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Constable: Mom and 7-year-old spin a bedtime tale, then see it published as a bookDec 05, 2020 12:00 am - The bedtime story is a tradition played out nightly between kids and parents across the suburbs, the nation and the globe. In the Woodridge home of Hafsa Naz Mahmood, he...
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Constable: Childhood fun in nature inspires Geneva writer's poetryDec 03, 2020 4:30 am - Growing up on Chicago's Gold Coast as the son of a prestigious doctor, Rick Holinger of Geneva had his “epiphany” on the edge of the Catskill Mountains while he was a st...
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Constable: Even marathoners have hit pandemic wall, but they press onDec 01, 2020 4:30 am - In March I got myself a face mask, learned how to spell “coronavirus,” and was actually looking forward to spending a week — maybe two — working from home. Nine months l...
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Constable: Pandemic can't curb this cornucopia of thanks for familyNov 26, 2020 5:00 am - This Thanksgiving - with masks, physical distancing and plans to gather around an outside fire pit - we are hosting the smallest gathering we've ever had for what is my ...
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Constable: Ho, ho, hold on a sec, as 'Pandemic Santas' ponder COVID holidaysNov 21, 2020 12:00 am - Santa Claus is coming to town. Probably. Maybe. But you might not recognize him at first. Pandemic Santa might wear a mask, maybe a plastic face shield, and he'll keep k...
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Constable: Drone view of city and suburbs comes to WTTWNov 19, 2020 4:00 am - Any of us who have flown into Chicago have gazed out the airplane window and tried to spot landmarks, expressways or maybe even our house. “It's hard to get your bearing...
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Constable: What to call people? Just plain folksNov 17, 2020 4:30 am - Last week in a column about Deerfield High School's being the first in the nation to perform the LGBTQ+ play “Making Gay History: Before Stonewall,” I had a hankering to...
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Constable: A lifetime shared together ends with COVID-19Nov 14, 2020 12:00 am - Carmen and Mary Siciliano started married life in a one-room apartment during World War II. They ended it 76 years later in a fifth-floor hospital room they shared with ...
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Constable: Barrington native works with icon Sophia Loren in 'The Life Ahead'Nov 13, 2020 4:30 am - Eleven years ago, Barrington native Sara Furio graduated from DePaul University, ended her gig as the video editor at Willow Creek Community Church and started her caree...