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  • La Grange, IL

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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Last-Place Seed Goes on to Little League Victory

It's the stuff of sports legends: The La Grange Cubs were seeded ninth out of nine teams heading into the playoffs. On June 23, they took home the championship.

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Jewel Osco Eliminating Loyalty Card, Fuel Rewards

The Chicago-area grocer says it wants everyone to enjoy the savings card-free. It’s a move some say is in the opposite direction of the trend.

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