Burt Constable
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Constable: Beloved trees branch into a collection of storiesMay 01, 2018 5:12 am - In 30 years of writing columns for this newspaper, I'm probably responsible for sending a small forest to the paper mill. The cruel irony is that I love trees. And I lov...
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Constable: For teenage cast, Orwell's '1984' resonates onstage and offApr 28, 2018 1:00 am - It's spring, the weather is finally warming up and many high schools are performing bright, cheery, uplifting theater productions that leave parents smiling. Last spring...
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Constable: Woodpeckers are nature's drum soloistsApr 26, 2018 5:30 am - It's too early on a weekday morning to be hammering, but this guy is a machine. He must be a professional with some sort of pneumatic nail gun, as the banging is faster ...
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Constable: Daily Herald photographer knows what Sox pitcher has enduredApr 24, 2018 5:32 am - By Burt Constable bconstable@dailyherald.com If White Sox pitcher Danny Farquhar, who remains in critical condition after a ruptured brain aneurysm, needs a role model, ...
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Constable: 71-year-old man believes he could have been one of Gacy's first victimsApr 21, 2018 1:00 am - Former Arlington Heights resident David Bolton's terrifying, disturbing and heartbreaking childhood vacation memory still intrudes on his daily life more than six decade...
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Constable: Poet from Rolling Meadows making wavesApr 19, 2018 5:33 am - In 1995, 16-year-old Faisal Mohyuddin of Rolling Meadows was so driven to share his experience as the son of Pakistani immigrants taking part in Ramadan as a distinct mi...
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Constable: Do you feel spring in your bones?Apr 17, 2018 5:30 am - The record-high temperature for today is 88 degrees, set it 1976. The record-low of 17 degrees was set in 1875, In 1961, this date brought us a half-inch of snow. We'll ...
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Olympic trio visits Norge, where ski jump dreams beganApr 14, 2018 1:00 am - Even with his "USA" backpack, 21-year-old Wauconda native Kevin Bickner looks like just another person getting off the train Saturday in Fox River Grove and trudging his...
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Cats saved in Cary house fire with aid of oxygen masksApr 14, 2018 1:00 am - All three human occupants of a house on fire in Cary made it out safely, but Cary Fire Protection District firefighters had to go into the house and use special oxygen m...
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Constable: Computer mandate means Amita doctor who's delivered thousands must stopApr 14, 2018 1:00 am - Hand-painted in exquisite detail and displayed in a magnificent wood-and-glass case in the Hoffman Estates home of Dr. Jeffrey B. Johnson, a miniature Lt. Col. George A....