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.
Information on unidentified bodies, including photos will soon start appearing on the Cook County Medical Examiner's website.
The car was unlocked with its keys left inside, La Grange Park police said.
A roundup of the more bizarre items from area police blotters.
La Grange police reports, Feb. 28-March 2.
Readers had a lot to say about a La Grange Park mom's quest to either move polls out of schools or keep students at home on Election Day.
Arrangements are scheduled for Friday and Saturday for Penicook, who died Wednesday after a long illness.
It's almost time to 'spring forward.' Here's some planning help.
It's almost time to 'spring forward.' Here's some planning help.
The four paintball shootings took place over a three-block stretch, La Grange police said.
The dates you need to know leading up to the April 9 Consolidated Election.
The National Weather Service gives us a gold medal when it comes to this winter storm.
The dates you need to know leading up to the April 9 Consolidated Election.
La Grange Park Police Reports, Feb. 26.
Check out what people had to say this week in La Grange and Western Springs.
The prom, in its second year, gives teens with special needs throughout the area a night to call their own.
Parents, Patch wants to hear from you on the questions that get families talking.
The prom, in its second year, gives teens with special needs throughout the area a night to call their own.
There are warrants out for the arrest of a number of accused criminals in and around Forest Park. Patch highlights a few of them.
There are warrants out for the arrest of a number of accused criminals in Oak Park. Patch highlights a few of them.
Western Springs police reports, Feb. 25-March 3
