Burt Constable
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Constable: 'Ditch weed' still part of marijuana's new frontier in IllinoisJul 11, 2019 5:33 am - In the summer of 1970, when marijuana was giving Pabst Blue Ribbon a run as the drug of choice among rural teenagers, I was a sixth-grader chopping it down. The Chicago ...
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Constable: Why you've forgotten the last All-Star Game held at Wrigley FieldJul 09, 2019 5:30 am - By Burt Constable The Chicago White Sox are battling to reach the .500 mark, and the first-place Chicago Cubs are struggling to avoid falling to the .500 mark. But both ...
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After 32 years, Ribfest says goodbye to NapervilleJul 06, 2019 1:00 am - Tangy, sweet, smokey or spicy, all the barbecued ribs options available to the patrons of Naperville's Ribfest on Saturday came with a side of bittersweet. Saturday mark...
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American Legion post goes all out for July 4, but it struggles to attract younger veteransJul 03, 2019 1:00 am - This story has been updated to note that there are certain eligibility time periods during which Armed Services personnel and veterans must have served in order to q...
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Constable: Lombard native turns deck of cards into magical careerJun 25, 2019 5:45 am - In 1969, Sean Masterson of Lombard saw a TV commercial featuring legendary magician Marshall Brodien hawking his magic cards. "I got it three weeks after he did his firs...
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Constable: In wake of #MeToo, sexual harassment training needed more than everJun 22, 2019 1:00 am - An old newspaper book on my desk, titled "Gimme Rewrite, Sweetheart," predates the start of my career by only a decade or so. I can't remember when sexual harassment bec...
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Constable: Teen advocates for others as she waits for new lungsJun 15, 2019 1:00 am - Nineteen-year-old Maddi Bertrand of Glen Ellyn is a leading voice in a somber new video by The New York Times, which notes that 11,000 Americans will die this year while...
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Constable: Flag Day has rules, which we have the freedom to ignoreJun 13, 2019 5:32 am - You might not have spectacular plans for Friday's Flag Day, but it is not a holiday to be ignored in our neck of the woods. One of the first proponents of Flag Day was ...
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Constable: How a baseball coach from Hoffman Estates ended up teaching in CubaJun 10, 2019 1:00 am - The relationship between the United States and Cuba became strained last week when the Trump administration banned U.S. cruise ships from sailing to the island nation an...
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Constable: After her film about Venezuela, woman seeks asylum in BartlettJun 08, 2019 1:00 am - Venezuelan filmmaker Stephanie Rodrigues couldn't be happier - or more heartbroken - about her temporary home in Bartlett. "The day I applied for asylum, I cried," the 2...