I direct a staff of reporters covering local schools, higher education in Illinois and state and national education issues.

Susan Keaton was born in Tennessee and is a graduate of Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. She worked as a reporter and editor at newspapers in five states before joining the Chicago Tribune 11 years ago. She lives in Naperville with her husband and two daughters.

parenting, reading newspapers, reading novels, social media, learning Chinese, comforting the afflicted, afflicting the comfortable