Burt Constable
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Constable: Former Glenview firefighter's early dementia diagnosis spurs wonderful adventuresJan 13, 2022 7:30 am - Former Glenview firefighter handles early onset dementia with humor - and it leads to adventure
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Constable: Remember 'Beanie Mania'? These women in a Naperville cul-de-sac made it happenJan 11, 2022 4:20 am - A fun-loving neighborhood in Naperville was the epicenter of the Beanie Babies craze of the 1990s, with the lovable $5 stuffed animals generating $1.4 billion in sales w...
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Bartlett couple purge for adventure as 'digital nomads'Jan 06, 2022 4:30 am - Some people started the New Year with a resolution to change one thing in their lives. Phyllis and Jerry Campagna ended 2021 by getting rid of almost all their stuff to ...
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Constable: COVID alters tradition, but can't dim holiday joyJan 04, 2022 4:30 am - For 63 consecutive years, my Christmas tradition had been either celebrating at home with family and extended family or making pilgrimages to the homes of loved ones for...
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Constable: Suburban volunteers raise a puppy, give it back for greater goodJan 01, 2022 12:00 am - Puppies packed with energy patiently wait to play. But the Leader Dog puppy raisers have training to finish first. “A little puppy, as soon as someone approaches them, t...
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Constable: With 2021 a repeat of 2020, we put our hope in 2022Dec 25, 2021 12:00 am - Last year at this time, Americans were about to celebrate the arrival of something great. OK, that was a bit optimistic. What we really had was a fervent hope that 2021 ...
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Constable: Arlington Heights man's early dementia diagnosis spurs wonderful adventuresDec 18, 2021 12:00 am - Before Brian Gaughan starts talking about his younger-onset dementia, the diagnosis beats him to it. "Part of this disease, the way it affects me, is I will think of som...
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Constable: Island med school president uses IT skills honed in suburbsDec 14, 2021 4:30 am - With a degree in computer science from Western Michigan University, Adedayo Akande had the winter driving skills required for the daily commute from his home in Chicago ...
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Constable: $275,000 guitar just part of luthiers' magic work in WaucondaDec 11, 2021 12:00 am - Tucked away in an old converted aluminum foundry in this unremarkable Wauconda business park is a father-and-son workshop where magical things happen. The haunting melod...
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'We don't ever forget': Antioch woman saw the Pearl Harbor attack as a child in HawaiiDec 07, 2021 12:00 am - Now 89 years old and living in Antioch, Jean Paulos Self remembers waking shortly before 8 a.m. to the rising sun on the "very, very, very noisy" morning of Dec. 7, 1941...