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  • Evanston, IL

I have worked for Patch as a local editor since September 2010, when I launched the Northbrook Patch site. I ran that site until taking over as editor in Evanston in May 2012. 

I have been involved with the news business since age 12, when my first job was stuffing papers (folding the arts section into the news section, which came separately) for a local newsstand in my hometown. Within a year, I was promoted to selling them on the street, where my biggest sales day coincided with the impeachment of Bill Clinton.

I attended college at the University of Chicago, where I majored in English and wrote for the school newspaper, The Maroon. I went on to earn a master of science degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. 

While in New York, I covered community news for the weekly Our Town, in addition to writing for the alternative weekly New York Press.

Following graduation, I spent two years in St. Louis, working full-time as associate editor for the weekly newspaper Ladue News while freelancing for the West End Word. 

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Don't Miss the Willard School Circus this Saturday

Other things to do this weekend: shop Westminster Place's Holiday Craft Fair, see 'Pride and Prejudice' at Northwestern or dine at Claudia pop-up restaurant.

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DMK Burger Bar & Fish Bar Coming to Evanston

The Chicago restaurant behind DMK Burger Bar, Fish Bar and Ada Street is opening a location at 815 Noyes St. in Evanston, filling the space vacated by Fraiche.

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Masked Men Threatened Victim at Gunpoint

The information in this blotter was reported by Evanston Police on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2013. Where arrests are included, it does not indicate a conviction.

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Evanston Police Investigate Death at Sherman Plaza

Police are investigating the death of a 22-year-old man after someone reported that he had jumped from the public parking garage at Davis Street and Benson Avenue.

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Car Burglars Hit North Evanston Neighborhood

The information in this blotter was reported by Evanston Police on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013. Where arrests are included, it does not indicate a conviction.

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