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  • Evanston, IL

I have worked for Patch as a local editor since September 2010, when I launched the Northbrook Patch site. I ran that site until taking over as editor in Evanston in May 2012. 

I have been involved with the news business since age 12, when my first job was stuffing papers (folding the arts section into the news section, which came separately) for a local newsstand in my hometown. Within a year, I was promoted to selling them on the street, where my biggest sales day coincided with the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

I attended college at the University of Chicago, where I majored in English and wrote for the school newspaper, The Maroon. I went on to earn a master of science degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. 

While in New York, I covered community news for the weekly Our Town, in addition to writing for the alternative weekly New York Press.

Following graduation, I spent two years in St. Louis, working full-time as associate editor for the weekly newspaper Ladue News while freelancing for the West End Word. 

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Got Questions for Evanston's Mayor?

Residents are invited to a town hall meeting with Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at the Levy Senior Center.

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Watch a Bears Player Get His Head Shaved

This week's 'Good Reads' also includes a disabled marathoner and a gym powered by your work on the cardio machines.

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Burglars Steal Cash on Ridgeway

The following information was reported by Evanston Police. Where an arrest is included, it does not indicate a conviction.

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Evanston Spikers Take Down Maine South

Behind Christine Covode’s 15 kills, the Kits took down a Maine South squad that is seeded third --- three spots ahead of ETHS --- in the Class 4A New Trier Sectional tournament.

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