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Ald. Taliaferro asks 29th Ward residents to weigh in on neighborhood improvement projects

By AustinTalks | March 28, 2016
Community

Free basketball clinics being held this summer

By AustinTalks | July 5, 2013

Several West Side parks will host the park district-organized events.

Community

Metalworking changes course of West Side student’s life

By AustinTalks | June 11, 2013

Austin Polytechnical Academy student’s success helps to dispel the misperceptions about manufacturing jobs.

News

Chicago Board of Education expected to vote to close up to 54 schools

By AustinTalks | May 22, 2013

The fate of 53 elementary schools will be decided; over 3,800 students from five Austin buildings could be affected

Community

Night of the arts

By AustinTalks | May 16, 2013

Students participating in after-school program will perform Friday night in Austin.

Community

New worker-run business comes to West Side

By AustinTalks | May 15, 2013

Four students at Austin Polytechnical Academy will make trumpet mouthpieces.

Opinion

Addressing the “elephant in the room” before the May 22nd vote on school closings

By AustinTalks | May 14, 2013

A West Side resident and former teacher questions officials’ agenda and warns African-American students could fall even further behind.

Community

Youth program seeks kids wanting to do something fun this summer

By AustinTalks | May 13, 2013

The Chicago Chargers football, dance, cheer and band squads will be registering participants every Saturday afternoon.

News

AustinTalks wins prestigious awards

By AustinTalks | May 6, 2013

The web site was honored at the annual Peter Lisagor dinner put on by the Chicago Headline Club.

Community

First class graduates from local entrepreneurship program

By AustinTalks | May 1, 2013

Last month, 28 prospective business owners completed 15 weeks of classes offered by Bethel New Life.

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News

  • Expungement, record sealing event helps West Siders get jobs after leaving prison

    Austin resident Anthony Jefferson has been working over the past six years to expunge his criminal record. With help from the Monroe Foundation, he's moving toward the clean slate he wants to achieve to secure employment.

  • Get free groceries, other help from these Austin groups

    On a recent Thursday, volunteers from What About Us Charitable Enterprises spent the morning filling dozens of grocery bags with fresh food and staples that soon filled the arms of West Side residents in need. Dorin “Pastor Mac” McIntyre, executive director and co-founder of What About Us Charitable Enterprises and pastor of Mount Olivet Missionary Baptist Church, is one of many helping Austin residents struggling with food insecurity.

  • 29th Ward residents invited to holiday events on Tuesday

  • 29th Ward residents invited to propose how to spend $450,000

    Austin residents are invited to participate in this year's participatory budgeting cycle. The annual process lets ward residents ages 14 and up decide how to spend a portion of the aldermanic menu money.

  • Forty Acres Fresh Market marks important moment this week in bringing store to Austin

    Austin moves one step closer this week to getting a new grocery store with the groundbreaking of Forty Acres Fresh Market in the heart of the Soul City Corridor. Another effort to expand food offerings on the West Side continues with the Austin Community Food Co-op, which held a virtual info session last week on its efforts to bring a grocery store to the area.

  • Healing in nature workshop set for Saturday

    The Westside Cultural Alliance continues its "See, Feel and Heal" nature series Saturday at Garfield Park Nature Area, 100 N. Central Park with a workshop on making memory boxes. The workshop sessions focus on art and nature as vehicles of healing through art therapy, which provides wholistic healing for the body, mind and spirit.

  • Illinois residents can apply for help with paying gas, electric bills

    Applications are now open for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) for qualified residential customers who are over the age of 60, have a disability or have children under the age of 6 to receive financial assistance to pay their energy bills. LIHEAP is a federally funded bill payment assistance program that helps low- and fixed-income families pay their utility during the winter heating season.

  • West Siders turn out for chili cook off in Austin’s Soul City

    Over a dozen local chefs competed in the second annual "It’s Getting Chili in Soul City" event on Saturday. A team of five who make up the Austin African American Business Networking Association board – Malcolm Crawford, Shirley Fields, Sharmine Rickett, Ronald Smith and Marshawn Felton – created the chili contest last year.

  • Chicago Marathon runner raises money for West Side girls

    Over the last 20 years, Ashley Graham has run 56 marathons - including the Chicago Marathon five times. Several of those marathons she raised money for charity - and this year was no different.

  • Stop by Austin farmers market this week

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