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Where can a mentally ill 12-year-old mom find a home?
By Burt Constable - 08/14/11
Mothers, some as young as 12, find coping skills and a home at Maryville Academy's Casa Imani in Bartlett. "We are here to teach them how to cope. They have to be able to live outside of here," says Donita Fuller, an evening supervisor... FULL STORY
By Burt Constable - 08/14/11
Their creed means seeing the positive everywhere
By Burt Constable - 08/10/11
Market plunges, flag-draped coffins, London riots and suburban murders pile onto a bad-news week already burdened with unemployment, illiness and foreclosures. So why are these folks smiling? FULL STORY
By Burt Constable - 08/10/11
Memorials for Lincoln, soldiers, my brother tell us what we had
By Burt Constable - 08/08/11
After visiting impressive monuments and memorials during a vacation in our nation's capital, we come home to discover an equally powerful display at the rural Indiana gravesite of my brother, who died one year ago today. FULL STORY
By Burt Constable - 08/08/11
A baby girl's death sparks a growing charity for others
By Burt Constable - 07/24/11
"No matter what happens, I want to do something for this unit," Mike Haught of Gilberts told his wife as their newborn daughter lay ill at Advocate Hope Children's Hospital in Oak Lawn. Eleven years later, their efforts have grown to... FULL STORY
By Burt Constable - 07/24/11
Thousands line up in hope of something better at casino
By Burt Constable - 07/18/11
A brand new casino just like the state's old casinos opens Monday in the City of Destiny. FULL STORY
By Burt Constable - 07/18/11
A brand new casino just like the state's old casinos opens Monday in the City of Destiny. FULL STORY
Summers of simple play a distant memory in suburbs
By Burt Constable - 07/17/11
During a week of perfect lazy summer days, suburban kids were their usual busy selves with camps, school, lessons and such. That's a far cry from the summers remembered by seniors. FULL STORY
By Burt Constable - 07/17/11
Lake County power outages down to a trickle
By Bob Susnjara and Burt Constable - 07/16/11
After replacing more than 350,000 feet of cable and wire, roughly 400 poles and 200 transformers, ComEd has restored power to almost all of the 858,000 customers who were shut down by Monday's fierce storm. FULL STORY
By Bob Susnjara and Burt Constable - 07/16/11
Storm spawns mysterious fish in driveways
By Burt Constable - 07/14/11
One wacky report of fish showing up on a Buffalo Grove driveway after Monday's storm leads to more reports of fish showing up on driveways in Gurnee. No one is saying that it's raining fish, but something is happening. FULL STORY
By Burt Constable - 07/14/11
Outage means updating Facebook by candlelight
By Burt Constable - 07/12/11
A generation ago, the loss of electricity gave rise to an adventure, not a catastrophe. Today, without electricity, we can't cook, cool, communicate or complain about it on Facebook. FULL STORY
By Burt Constable - 07/12/11
Story of 'raining fish' ends the way most fish tales do
By Burt Constable - 07/11/11
While newspaper people long to write a "It's raining fish" headline, that's not the meteorolgist's explanation of how two small fish ended up on a Buffalo Grove driveway after Monday's storm. FULL STORY
By Burt Constable - 07/11/11
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