Lorraine Swanson
E-mail: lorraine.swanson@patch.com
Hometown: I grew up in Des Plaines, Ill., and have lived and worked in the Chicago region my entire life. Phone: 708-990-4905 Lorraine Swanson is the first member of her family to live south of Roosevelt Road since her grandmother stopped the rag man from whipping his horse in Gage Park in 1910. She is a veteran community journalist, writing and/or editing weeklies for Lerner Newspapers, Pioneer Press and Chicago Journal. Most recently, Lorraine had her own community news site covering Chicago's Far North Side neighborhoods called Lake Effect News.
Hometown: I grew up in Des Plaines, Ill., and have lived and worked in the Chicago region my entire life. Phone: 708-990-4905 Lorraine Swanson is the first member of her family to live south of Roosevelt Road since her grandmother stopped the rag man from whipping his horse in Gage Park in 1910. She is a veteran community journalist, writing and/or editing weeklies for Lerner Newspapers, Pioneer Press and Chicago Journal. Most recently, Lorraine had her own community news site covering Chicago's Far North Side neighborhoods called Lake Effect News.
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