Burt Constable
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Constable: For the Cubs, Reds are no Kansas City CowboysJul 07, 2016 5:00 am - Whenever the first-place Chicago Cubs struggle with injuries and fall into a bit of a funk this season, the schedule gives them a dose of division-trailing Cincinnati Re...
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Constable: Volunteer for 70 years, veteran still waves flag for ScoutsJul 03, 2016 7:15 am - Celebrating his 90th birthday, George “Bob” Jarvis of Grayslake still smiles at the memory of the glorious present he received when he turned 12. “I got a flag for my bi...
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Constable: Ex-Harper dean's stories as Wrigley usher rebound with CubsJun 30, 2016 5:39 am - When Buffalo Grove author Bruce Bohrer's "Best Seat In The House! Diary of a Wrigley Field Usher" was published in 2014, the Chicago Cubs were in last place, with key pl...
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Constable: Teachers spend summer working for fallJun 28, 2016 5:41 am - On a glorious summer day while commuting to work, driving as part of work or being stuck in a cubicle actually working, some folks might daydream about being a teacher. ...
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Constable: Even a Cardinals sweep can't faze Cubs fansJun 22, 2016 1:00 am - The Cardinals trying to sweep the Cubs at Wrigley Field brings a crowd to the North Side. That applies to the suburbs, too. “This is the closest you can get to Wrigleyv...
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Constable: Breaking mother-in-law stereotypeJun 21, 2016 5:00 am - Growing up watching TV sitcoms, I was led to believe that the most meddlesome, critical, annoying and vile creature on Earth was the mother-in-law. The biggest promoter...
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Constable: Orlando shooting shows power of final words to loved onesJun 18, 2016 1:00 am - Amid the barrage of bullets, pools of blood and screams of horror, dozens of text messages made their way safely out of the Pulse nightclub in Orlando early last Sunday....
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Constable: Cubs fan not shaving half his face until World Series winJun 16, 2016 5:00 am - At 74 years old, lifelong Cubs fan Don Miller Sr. is all in. His beard, however, remains just half in, thanks to Miller's pledge not to shave both sides of his face unti...
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Constable: Easier to curb carnage than hateJun 14, 2016 5:00 am - Muslims, gays, guns, gun-owners, gun-grabbers, politicians, Republicans, Democrats, Socialists, Communists, conservatives, liberals, Jews, Christians, Palestinians, Syri...
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Constable: '36 Olympic swimming champ still swimming in WadsworthJun 12, 2016 7:15 am - His 98th birthday just two weeks away, Adolph Kiefer slowly swings his stiff, worn body out of his wheelchair and lowers himself precariously close to the edge of the sw...