• Jean LotusCommunity Contributor

  • Oak Park-River Forest, IL
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Jean Lotus loves community journalism. She is currently the publisher of www.Schoolboardfocuswest.com, exploring the connections between local politics and school boards in Suburban Cook County.

She graduated from University of Chicago and is a former daily reporter/night editor for the Lafayette, Ind. Journal & Courier (Gannett). She worked between 2011-2015 as managing editor/reporter of the Forest Park Review and crime reporter for Wednesday Journal in Oak Park.

In 2014, she won the Peter Lisagor award for best in-depth reporting in a non-daily newspaper.

During her three-year tenure as editor for the Forest Park Review, her paper twice won the General Excellence award at the Illinois Press Association. She also won first prize at the IPA for news reporting, feature writing and won the 2013 first prize University of Illinois Knight Cash Prize Award for Investigative Journalism.

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