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  • La Grange, IL

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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Post Office Issues Warning about Virus-Tainted Email

The phony email message about problems with a package delivery entices people to open an attachment that allows personal info to be lifted from a computer.

Post Office Issues Warning about Virus-Tainted Email
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Trooper the German Shepherd Needs a Home

Trooper is a 12-week-old pup with brains and beauty. He's available for adoption at the Hinsdale Humane Society.

Trooper the German Shepherd Needs a Home