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Lauren serves as associate regional editor for several Patch.com sites in the suburbs as well as in five North Side Chicago neighborhoods. She came to Patch from InsideCounsel, a legal magazine where she worked as managing editor. She was awarded Folio Magazine's 2011 Bronze Eddie Award for business reporting for her story "Mind the Gap: Generation Y Enters the Workplace." She has a master's in journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism. Post-graduation, she completed a three-month investigative reporting fellowship through the Carnegie-Knight News21 Initiative. She spent the summer reporting on the environmental, political and economic implications of a controversial industrial dairy farm under construction in northwest Illinois. Prior to graduate school, she worked as assistant director of undergraduate admission at Northwestern. She has a bachelor's degree in performance studies from Northwestern's School of Communication. Her freelance reporting and writing has appeared in Time Out Chicago, A.V. Club Chicago, Men's Health, Skin Inc. (a spa industry magazine) and the Chicago Sun-Times.
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La Grange police reports, Aug. 1-4.
Word is that the eighth-grade graduation this spring was quite boisterous. So just how noisy was it?
Also: Get your LT schedule and buy a Powerball ticket.
Also: Get your LT schedule and buy a Powerball ticket.
Also this week: a woman killed in a tragic fall from a horse, a suburban police chief faces harassment charges and multiple "flashing" incidents.
Also this week: a woman killed in a tragic fall from a horse, a suburban police chief faces harassment charges and multiple "flashing" incidents.
“Slaughterhouse-Five” will run Sept. 5-15.
Also: Zoo Brew returns and the Perseid meteor shower lights up the night sky.
Also: Zoo Brew returns and the Perseid meteor shower lights up the night sky.
Also: A Western Springs woodworker demonstrates his craft at the Morton Arboretum and dinosaurs invade the Brookfield Zoo.
Also: How to get a free cupcake from Isn't That Sweet, and dinosaurs invade the Brookfield Zoo.
See what people had to say in La Grange and Western Springs with our roundup of the best of the blogs and boards.
See what people had to say in La Grange and Western Springs with our roundup of the best of the blogs and boards.
Take a look back at what happened this week in La Grange and Western Springs.
Take a look back at what happened this week in La Grange and Western Springs.
Queenie is a 1-year-old domestic/shorthair mix seeking a forever home.
Queenie is a 1-year-old domestic/shorthair mix seeking a forever home.