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.
Former associate principal of academic affairs Marcus Campbell will take over as assistant superintendent/principal at Evanston Township High School, replacing Oscar Hawthorne, who resigned to pursue another job.
Two lanes of Davis Street will temporarily be closed from 7 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 26.
Evanston aldermen approved a lease-to-own agreement for city property and a tax-increment financing construction grant of $200,000 for a new restaurant and brewery at 623-627 ½ Howard St.
Evanston firefighters extinguished a fire that broke out in a microwave at Kansaku Sushi restaurant shortly before 1 a.m. Tuesday.
Beer, wings and slam dunks! It's tournament time -- here's where to catch all the games.
Two Evanston residents say they support Evanston Township High School District 202 candidate Pat Savage-Williams because of her experience as a school psychologist and coordinating special education programs.
A future District 202 parent and Evanston Township High School graduate recommends Doug Holt for election to the District 202 school board, citing Holt's "data-based decision making."
Evanston Police arrested four people for driving under the influence and issued 11 tickets for driving while talking on a cell phone during a traffic enforcement campaign from March 14 to 17.
Former private equity firm chairman Bruce Rauner has launched an exploratory committee to consider a run for the Republican nomination to Illinois governor in 2014. He speaks in Evanston Tuesday.
Evanston native and former mathematics professor Daniel Biss has moved up to the Illinois Senate determined to work on the state's pension liability.
Evanston native and former mathematics professor Daniel Biss has moved up to the Illinois Senate determined to work on the state's pension liability.
The GameStop store at 920 Church St. shut its doors for good on Sunday, March 17.
After 13 seasons at the head of the Northwestern University men's basketball team, coach Bill Carmody is leaving the position, according to a statement on the university's website.
Tio Hardiman is director of Cure Violence Illinois (formerly CeaseFire), a national group that seeks to end violence by treating it like an infectious disease. He hosts a Violence Prevention Community Forum in Evanston March 28.
Hewn Bakery is slated to open this June at 810 Dempster St., serving artisan breads, pastries and vegetable salads, as well as gourmet coffee and espresso.
Carolyn Murray, whose sun, Justin, was shot and killed in November, met with President Obama in February. “He said that he heard about Evanston," she told the council. "I don’t know if that’s good or bad."
A representative of the management company that owns the shopping plaza says it’s unlikely that a bowling alley would move in, given the layout of the remaining vacant space.
Carolyn Murray, whose sun, Justin, was shot and killed in November, met with President Obama in February. “He said that he heard about Evanston," she told the council. "I don’t know if that’s good or bad."
Architect and Evanston Township High School grad Josh Gilbert is planning to open a brewery in a warehouse at 2000 Dempster St. this summer.
Mayor Elizabeth Tisdahl officially recognized Evanston Police Officer Sean O’Brien, who saved a 7-year-old boy from drowning in the Des Plaines River while off duty last week.
