Burt Constable
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Constable: At 100, WWII veteran reflects on good times amid hardshipOct 20, 2020 5:30 am - Former Hinsdale resident Evert Bergquist won't risk celebrating his 100th birthday today in public. “Florida is so bad with this virus,” Bergquist says, adding that many...
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Constable: Prizes add to palette of artist, disability advocateOct 15, 2020 5:30 am - By Burt Constable bconstable@dailyherald.com There are many ways to describe 39-year-old Reveca Torres of Prospect Heights, an artist whose work and life are taking inte...
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Constable: Harvesting a bit of guilt as I break the family farming streakOct 12, 2020 1:00 am - We all agree Monday was a holiday, or at least a day without mail. My calendar said it was Christopher Columbus Day, in honor of the 15th-century explorer. It also said ...
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Constable: If it is 'Goodbye, Columbus,' what fills that void?Oct 10, 2020 1:00 am - Four metal posts jut out of the empty stone pedestal where a 9-foot-tall statue of Christopher Columbus once looked over Arrigo Park in Chicago's Little Italy neighborho...
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Constable: Downers Grove Girl Scout wins National Gold Award for creating sex assault databaseOct 08, 2020 5:30 am - A middle school friend's “sexual assault crisis” and the lasting and traumatic effects it had on the girl inspired Therese Malinowski of Downers Grove to make a differen...
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Hike near home turns into mission to see every DuPage County forest preserveOct 06, 2020 5:30 am - The pandemic wiped out the traveling she does as district manager for Lego and temporarily closed the Zanies Comedy Clubs where he works booking comics and doing publici...
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Constable: Italian immigrant, U.S. Army veteran writes love story at age 87Oct 03, 2020 1:00 am - Even before he watched American soldiers drive the Nazis from his Italian village, Rocco Blasi dreamed of living in the United States. "It was something I wanted so badl...
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Constable: Fraternities still viable during pandemic, changing timesOct 01, 2020 5:00 am - I still remember the day I came out to the woman who would become my wife. "You?" she stammered in disbelief. "You were in a fraternity?" As a proud "GDI" (Independent) ...
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Constable: Awful 2020 gives us best October in Chicago sports historySep 28, 2020 1:00 am - The year 2020 has given us a pandemic seemingly intent on killing a quarter-million Americans, record unemployment, hurricanes, wildfires, economic devastation, civil an...
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Constable: How Lisle native managed to run 7 marathons in one weekSep 26, 2020 1:00 am - Having run his first marathon in April 2018, Lisle native Peter Krzywosz cranked out a second 26.2-mile effort seven months later. Then, he posted his personal best time...