Burt Constable
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Constable: WWII veteran was about to be forced out of his home. Then his daughter found a 'miracle.'Dec 22, 2018 12:00 am - It seemed unlikely that this 95-year-old World War II veteran would be home for Christmas. John Robert Savely and his wife of 60 years, Jeanne, had gone through their sa...
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The newspaper legacy the Paddocks leave: Fearing God, telling the truth, making moneyDec 16, 2018 6:30 am - On Dec. 15, 1898, Hosea C. Paddock bought the Palatine Enterprise for $175 and started his newspaper business in the rural hamlets that would grow to become the modern N...
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Constable: Taking pointers from Bush, former judge maintains Lake County rootsDec 08, 2018 12:00 am - When he was a fourth-grader, Fred Foreman moved with his family into his grandfather's two-bedroom, one-bathroom converted summer cottage in the Lake County community of...
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Constable: The living have plenty to say about dyingDec 04, 2018 4:30 am - You might not be certain whether your taxes will go down or up. But death is at an all-time high. A record 2.8 million Americans died last year, about 70,000 more than...
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Constable: This Mundelein beauty-school dropout now is in the business of making stuffDec 01, 2018 12:00 am - Immortalized in the musical "Grease," the phrase "beauty-school dropout" carries an onus that Lauren Jackson of Mundelein simply remakes into something unexpected and be...
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Constable: The trick of turning philosophy, physics and art into magicNov 24, 2018 12:00 am - As Wheaton native Jeanette Andrews gives her takes on Plato, theater, French existentialist Simone de Beauvoir's "The Second Sex," quantum physics, her installations at ...
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Constable: Kids grow up, but joys and thanks remain a constantNov 22, 2018 4:30 am - My wife, Cheryl, and I became parents on a very happy and emotional Thanksgiving afternoon in 1995. As I have for every Thanksgiving since, I ask for your indulgence as ...
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Constable: Visiting one of his restaurants, founder Dick Portillo still one of the crewNov 17, 2018 12:00 am - Watching Dick Portillo wait his turn behind other customers standing in the lunch line at the Downers Grove Portillo's restaurant tells you something about the man. An e...
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'For more than 50 years, I never spoke of Emmett': Till's cousin opens up in PBS documentaryNov 15, 2018 4:30 am - On Aug. 27, 1955, Phyllis Smith of Downers Grove celebrated her 6th birthday with her parents, sister and the usual collection of aunties and uncles and cousins. Her fav...
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Constable: Immigrant's worry leads to WWI service and an American lifeNov 12, 2018 12:00 am - By Burt Constable bconstable@dailyherald.com What started because a worried Irishman didn't want to fight for the English during World War I turned into a wonderful Amer...