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Students at Lewis School of Excellence have spent the past several weeks working on a series of murals titled "We Believe." The paintings, unveiled at an event Friday, send a message of equality, students said.
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The PepsiCo Foundation is launching a $40 million scholarship program, investing in 4,000 Black and latinx students throughout the country, including 160 Chicagoans. Partnering with City Colleges of Chicago, the PepsiCo Foundation Uplift Scholars Program will help fund scholarships plus provide other resources, such as emergency dollars for childcare, transportation, wellness centers and food pantries, among other services.
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Senior Ella Houston, a 29th Ward resident, ran into a lot of issues while registering by phone for a vaccine appointment, she said at the ward's monthly Zoom meeting last week. Houston initially received a call from the city telling her to register for a vaccine appointment at The Loretto Hospital.
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Everyday Activists featuring several Austin residents will be featured in an exhibit starting May 4th at the Oak Park Art League, 720 Chicago Ave. Part of a larger “Intersection: Art & Word” exhibit, the photography and interview-driven project highlights the work of 19 Austin and Oak Park residents.
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The group recently chosen to develop the former Laramie State Bank building last week updated members of the Austin African American Business Networking Association on the nearly $40 million project. More than 200 jobs will be created by the project, which will include 76 units of mixed-income housing, a bank branch, a café and an interactive blues history museum at the corner of Laramie and Chicago.
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Senn High School’s Black Student Union President Tyshaun Zollicoffer was recently named one of the winners of the prestigious Scholastic Art Awards Midwest. Zollicoffer, who is in the After School Matters advanced drawing and painting program, has been honing his craft for a while now.
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Two or three times a week, Luther Syas and his team set up a couple folding tables on a West Side street corner. The tables are stocked with injectable naloxone kits and boxes of Narcan spray, and information about how the opioid reversal drugs work and treatment programs.
It's all part of the West Side Heroin and Opioid Task Force's mission to reduce overdose deaths on the West Side.
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Fresh Start Fathers, the Greer Family and Austin residents will hold the 13th annual anti-gun violence prayer vigil from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the corner of Lotus Avenue and Congress Parkway. After losing Marcus Greer (Lil Marcus), their beloved brother, son, nephew, grandson and friend, in April 2008, the Greer family rallied his friends and neighbors to join in prayer, asking God to intervene and help stop the killing of our children.
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Austin’s Walmart Supercenter unveiled a new, community-focused mural Thursday as part of their Chicago Mural Program. Artist Tia Etu hopes her mural, titled “Generations” and located just inside the store's grocery entrance at 4650 W. North Ave., shows Austin in a way everyone can identify with.
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About 50 Austin community members gathered last weekend for a spring cleaning rally. The effort was organized by Wecycle, described by CEO David Fleming as a “community revitalization, cleaning service.”
Fleming said he and his children love going to Oak Park because it’s a beautiful area.
