Burt Constable
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Constable: A month on horseback helps 'urban cowgirls' healApr 29, 2017 1:00 am - Traveling by horseback for a month, self-proclaimed “urban cowgirls” Megan Gray and Susan Brown pack light. They say they are able to leave all their physical and emotio...
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Constable: Champs rule, but fans still wear has-been jerseysApr 26, 2017 5:33 am - YouTube bconstable@dailyherald.com You can't spill a $10 Corona beer in the bleachers at Wrigley Field without soiling somebody's $134 Kris Bryant jersey. In the giddy a...
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Constable: What can be done in a Sweden-style 6-hour workdayApr 25, 2017 5:20 am - We eat Swedish meatballs and Swedish Fish. We drive Volvos and Saabs. Our movies are better because of Swedish actresses Ann-Margret and Greta Garbo, and director Ingmar...
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Constable: Quakers still have friends in suburbsApr 22, 2017 1:00 am - Until this week, here is what I knew about Quakers: 1. That guy on the oatmeal container is a Quaker. 2. Quakers often get confused with Shakers, the furniture folks. Wi...
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Constable: Arlington Heights native hits vinyl homer with Cubs songApr 20, 2017 5:20 am - Rooting for the Chicago Cubs during his years growing up in Arlington Heights, Ted Wulfers couldn't be content just watching that glorious World Series Game 7 victory wi...
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Constable: Old Cub favorites get ringsApr 18, 2017 5:36 am - Just when you thought the Chicago Cubs were done celebrating last year's championship, they open the door to some former players who may have dropped out of sight but ne...
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Constable: A Haeger Potteries artist's quest to find his colossal vaseApr 15, 2017 1:00 am - For seven generations, men in the Maglio family turned lumps of clay into works of art in Italy. In 1963, the last of that line, Italian master potter Sebastiano Maglio,...
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Constable: What it was like for suburban fans to deliver World Series ringsApr 12, 2017 1:00 am - On a night when winter temperatures and a brisk wind required Wrigley Field patrons to don parkas, mittens, ski boots and wool caps, nothing warmed a Cubs fan's spirit b...
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Constable: Murray brother knows Cubs, golf fashionApr 10, 2017 5:30 am - On the cusp of the most talented Cubs team in more than a century raising the 2016 championship banner Monday at Wrigley Field, a comedian/actor/Cubs fan with the last n...
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Constable: Banners rise, bullpens fallApr 10, 2017 1:00 am - Since that first Chicago Cubs Opening Day at Wrigley Field in 1916, the season's home opener has subjected Cubs fans to blizzards, monsoons, sleet, freezing temperatures...