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.
Find out when and where the final installment of the Twilight Saga is playing near Burr Ridge, and how to get tickets.
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Local businesses salute our service men and women with special deals year-round ,as well as on Veterans Day.
The Bears begin a daunting schedule with a Sunday nighter against Houston. Can you guess the score? Closest prediction to the outcome wins a Patch tote bag!
Whoops! Someone's guilty! What's this basset hound thinking?
Costumes both silly and spooky thrilled us in our search for the best local Halloween getups.
Silly topped spooky in our search for the best local Halloween costumes.
Tickets to President Obama's Election Night rally at McCormick Place are hard to come by, but that hasn't stopped shrewd Chicagoans from posting their pleas on Craigslist.
Parents, Patch wants to hear from you on the questions that get families talking.
Readers watched results roll in and shared their predictions and reaction in real time with Patch's election night live blog. Take a moment to catch up on the conversation.
Here's a round-up of recent and bizarre police report items from the area.
Patch will keep you up to date Tuesday with all the major state and local races—from the hotly contested congressional districts to the DuPage County Board.
Races on the ballots in Hinsdale, Clarendon Hills and Burr Ridge include Hinsdale native Kirk Dillard versus A. Ghani in the 24th State Senate District and Judy Biggert versus Bill Foster in the new 11th Congressional District.
Don't forget to switch your clocks back an hour at 2 a.m. Nov. 4.
Police are questioning a "person of interest" after they were called to do a wellbeing check Tuesday night.
Police are questioning a "person of interest" after they were called to do a wellbeing check Tuesday night.
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