Burt Constable
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Constable: Will the world end with Pope Francis? Prophecies say ...Sep 24, 2015 5:45 am - Enjoy this papal visit to the United States, because there will be no more. Pope Francis is the last pope. The world will end soon, probably about the time the Cubs are ...
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Constable: Food pantry work earns pope trip for 'local Mother Teresa'Sep 22, 2015 5:30 am - By Burt Constable bconstable@dailyherald.com When Pope John Paul II performed an open-air Mass in 1979 in Chicago's Grant Park, LaVerne Horgan didn't go. "I couldn't. I ...
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Constable: How dare you apply baling wire to our tax system?Sep 17, 2015 5:00 am - We finally get a Republican and Democrat to agree on something, and I have to complain. In making a compelling bipartisan argument for reforming Illinois' flawed taxing ...
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Constable: Babies and toddlers pay when state doesn't fund therapistsSep 12, 2015 11:00 pm - During Illinois' budget crisis in November 2008, the early intervention therapists who help children cope with all sorts of issues hadn't been paid for nearly two months...
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Constable: Corn and tomatoes raising cabbage for Maple Park couple's weddingSep 10, 2015 5:20 am - In her 1957 classic, "Amy Vanderbilt's Complete Book of Etiquette," the maven of manners listed her rules for weddings. If the bride's family, gasp, had no coat of arms,...
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Retired teacher finally can enjoy carefree Labor DaySep 07, 2015 1:00 am - For the first time since 1973, Peggy Swyter of Hoffman Estates can celebrate Labor Day without having to worry about showing up for work before dawn on Tuesday. The new...
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Officer's shooting shatters sense of safety in Fox LakeSep 05, 2015 1:00 am - This holiday weekend, small suburb locks down
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Constable: Officer's death yields ugly rush to judgment on social mediaSep 02, 2015 4:00 pm - Within an hour of the first hint of police activity Tuesday morning in Fox Lake, I overheard Daily Herald editor Pete Nenni talking on the phone with reporter Lee Filas....
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70 years later, POW camp horrors are still freshAug 31, 2015 11:00 pm - The end of World War II arrived in eerie silence for Tony Gargano, a prisoner of war who had endured nearly three years of beatings and cruelty at the hands of his Japan...
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Constable: Wheaton College grad has made fighting poverty his life's workAug 29, 2015 11:00 pm - There is a perception that if a college graduate can't find a “real” job, he always can go work for some nonprofit do-gooder charity, especially one with a religious ben...