Burt Constable
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Constable: Bote miracle rekindles feelings from 'Sandberg Game'Aug 13, 2018 1:00 am - Editor's note: In a Tuesday column about the Chicago Cubs, columnist Burt Constable mistakenly referred to 1980s backup infielder Dave Owen as Owens. For those of you...
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Constable: Suburban birder honked off by plans to change conservation lawAug 11, 2018 1:00 am - While birders are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the iconic conservation law credited with saving birds such as the trumpeter swan and the bald eagle from extincti...
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Constable: Why suburban schools back immigration safe zonesAug 09, 2018 5:28 am - Recent bills signed into law by Gov. Bruce Rauner change the rules surrounding rabies inoculations, add one school to a bus route, mandate that massage parlors post noti...
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30 years ago, a Daily Herald sports writer vanished on a mountain. Last weekend, his son climbed it.Aug 07, 2018 5:00 am - Thirty years ago today, Daily Herald sports writer Keith Reinhard vanished without a trace. Reinhard told folks in the tiny Colorado town where he was taking a sabbatica...
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Constable: As Empowering Girls show begins in Rosemont, recall women's struggle in the '70sAug 04, 2018 1:00 am - The Empowering Girls for Life show starting Friday in Rosemont features 37 speakers such as softball legend Jennie Finch, Olympic gold-medal gymnast Laurie Hernandez, an...
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Constable: Golden Gate finish beckons for Libertyville cyclistAug 02, 2018 5:30 am - Libertyville resident Maggie Piazzi's dream of bicycling 4,711 miles across the country to honor her father and other survivors and victims of cancer hit a snag on Day O...
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Constable: The sounds of cellphone silence and cicadasJul 31, 2018 5:36 am - On the first day of vacation, the chirping comes from cellphones. "I'm PTO," says a salesman friend, who shuts off the ringer on his noisy phone as part of his vow to en...
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EXCHANGE: 50-year Cubs fan flooded with memoriesJul 29, 2018 7:00 am - EAST DUNDEE, Ill. (AP) - It doesn't matter who wins MLB's All-Star Game, a mere exhibition to showcase a game most people quit playing in grade school. And yet, baseball...
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Constable: 'Caretakers of history' restore World War II plane in suburbsJul 24, 2018 5:00 am - The small plane was flown by the British Royal Air Force during World War II, sold to a Dutch dentist and then sold again to an American pilot in New Hampshire. The fou...
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Daily Herald Leadership team member Laura SzejkaJul 21, 2018 1:00 am - Editor's note: This article originally appeared on Jan. 3, 2007, when Laura Szejka was a member of the Daily Herald Leadership team. Laura Szejka School: Buffalo Grove H...