Burt Constable
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Constable: Birth defect fixed 72 years laterFeb 28, 2016 6:20 am - On the day after Christmas in 1943, George Brandon was born with a potentially life-threatening heart defect that wasn't diagnosed. Last month, after a routine colonosco...
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Constable: Why noises that lull some to sleep wake othersFeb 25, 2016 4:00 am - I'm fast asleep, blissfully snoring away, when an odd sound jars me from my slumber at 4:16 a.m. It's coming from my wife's new HoMedics Sleep Solutions Portable SoundSp...
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Constable: Canada might need a huge wall after Election DayFeb 23, 2016 4:00 am - We've all heard somebody say, “If (insert name of a horrific U.S. presidential candidate here) actually gets elected president, I'm moving to Canada,” That sure sounds l...
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Constable: No showers yet, but suburban libraries expand social servicesFeb 18, 2016 4:45 am - The notion of your local library as a place where you go to borrow a book seems almost as antiquated as an actual hardcover book. Suburban residents use libraries as bus...
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Cubs at Wrigley give fans no rings but 100 years of storiesFeb 16, 2016 10:00 pm - In the 100 years that the Chicago Cubs have played baseball at Wrigley Field, the iconic ballpark has yet to hoist one world-championship banner. But, since the Cubs bea...
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Constable: Despite Einstein theory confirmation, Argonne physicist dashes time travel hopeFeb 16, 2016 4:00 am - Last week's announcement that the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory confirmed Albert Einstein's century-old theory of general relativity and proved the...
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Constable: Bittersweet love story grows out of griefFeb 14, 2016 6:00 am - Devastated by the deaths of their spouses, widow Julie Stressler of Ingleside and widower Dave Heffner of Mundelein made an important discovery at last year's annual Val...
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Constable: Candy no longer dandy, and online daters better at loveFeb 11, 2016 4:00 am - Third-grade taught me that Valentine's Day isn't all fun and games and candy hearts. Growing up in a small town, we kids all shopped at the same store, where the only va...
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Constable: For some folks, February is 'divorce season'Feb 09, 2016 4:00 am - In his classic "The Waste Land," poet T.S. Eliot proclaimed April as "the cruelest month." But February can make a case for being pretty nasty, too. The shortest month c...
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Constable: The hair Arlington Heights barber has seen in 50 yearsFeb 07, 2016 6:00 am - As a teenager fresh out of barber school, Cesare Sorrentino took over a chair in his brother's shop in Arlington Heights. He cut the long locks of that era and chatted w...