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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Slain U.S. diplomat and River Forest native Anne Smedinghoff is remembered in a book created by children from throughout the Chicago area and Afghanistan.
Slain U.S. diplomat and River Forest native Anne Smedinghoff is remembered in a book created by children from throughout the Chicago area and Afghanistan.
A La Grange Park organization united children from here and Afghanistan to create a book dedicated to slain U.S. diplomat Anne Smedinghoff.
A La Grange Park organization united children from here and Afghanistan to create a book dedicated to slain U.S. diplomat Anne Smedinghoff.
Michael Zaky Bassaly has been charged with his mother to death outside St. Mark Orthodox Coptic Church in Burr Ridge.
Michael Zaky Bassaly has been charged with his mother to death outside St. Mark Orthodox Coptic Church in Burr Ridge.
As the president and Congress debate another military move in the Middle East, we ask how the idea of a U.S. strike hits home with you. Take the Patch Poll.
As the president and Congress debate another military move in the Middle East, we ask how the idea of a U.S. strike hits home with you. Take the Patch Poll.
Students from Lyons Township High School and Park Junior High will spend the next three months creating a robot to compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge.
Students from Lyons Township High School and Park Junior High will spend the next three months creating a robot to compete in the FIRST Tech Challenge.
La Grange police reports, Aug. 28-30.
Rep. Dan Lipinski said he is in favor of the United States taking action in Syria, but there must be limitations.
Rep. Dan Lipinski said he is in favor of the United States taking action in Syria, but there must be limitations.
Bat bites are so small they may not be felt or seen, says the Cook County Department of Public Health.
There are a number of suspected criminals wanted in the La Grange and Western Springs area. Patch highlights a few of them.
There are a number of suspected criminals wanted in the La Grange and Western Springs area. Patch highlights a few of them.
A look at the top stories during August in Western Springs.
A look at the top stories during August in La Grange.
La Grange police reports, Aug. 24-27.
