Kelly is in her last quarter at Medill and reports on youth, politics and the 2008 election and co-authors Reality Bytes. She previously was a business reporter in Arizona, a health and science reporter in Chicago and a general assignment reporter at the Lake County News-Sun and the Journal Star in Peoria, Ill. She also writes about food in her off time at www.kellytheculinarian.blogspot.com and http://wellfedonthetown.net/.  She also writes a weekly column for The Lake County News-Sun  about politics.