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.
The village's second ALS Tag Days event takes place this weekend. Organizer Dick Jacobson took his story to Washington in February, testifying about the disease before the FDA.
La Grange police reports, April 25-29.
The Western Springs Police Department targeted people during the week of April 21-28 who were using electronic devices while driving.
Angus is an 11-month-old domestic shorthair looking for a lifelong home.
Joker is a friendly 1-year-old pug mix who would make an ideal family dog.
A roundup of what people had to say this week in La Grange and Western Springs.
A roundup of some of the more bizarre items from area police blotters.
Jewel grocery stores have a new policy that makes it mandatory for an employee to follow you to your car—and readers have plenty to say about it.
La Grange Park police reports, April 22-25.
La Grange police reports, April 29-May 1.
Police said they pulled the man over on La Grange Road after they saw him swerving between lanes.
The 10 most-read stories during April in Western Springs.
Obituaries, memorial services and upcoming visitations at area funeral homes.
Visitation is scheduled for Sunday at Hallowell & James Funeral Home, with funeral mass to be celebrated Monday at St. Cletus Church.
The 10 most-read stories during April on La Grange Patch.
There are warrants out for the arrest of a number of accused criminals in and around Forest Park and Oak Park. Patch highlights a few of them.
There are warrants out for the arrest of a number of accused criminals in and around La Grange and Western Springs. Patch highlights a few of them.
Kevin Ethridge, 47, thought he was having an online relationship with a 15-year-old girl but was, in fact, exchanging notes with a police investigator.
The Joliet man communicated online with a Western Springs investigator that he thought was a 15-year-old girl.
La Grange police reports, April 23-24.
