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West Side school closure community meetings

By AustinTalks | January 30, 2013

CPS will hold two meetings about neighborhood school closures Jan. 31 and Feb. 13 in the Austin-North Lawndale network.

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Illinois Heart female basketball team tryouts Saturday

By AustinTalks | January 25, 2013

Women 18-years-old and older can tryout Jan. 26 at Columbus Park from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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Meet the creator and cast of the Interrupters

By AustinTalks | January 21, 2013

As part of its Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, Christ the King Jesuit College Prep will screen the Interrupters with a presentation from the cast and creator Monday at 12:30 p.m.

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CAPS program sees revitalization

By AustinTalks | January 10, 2013

Police district commanders will now be able to customize individual community-policing programs.

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The Black Star Project honors 108 youth killed in Chicago, 10 in Austin last year

By AustinTalks | January 10, 2013

The organization asks who will mourn for the hundreds of people killed in the city in 2012.

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Where to recycle your Christmas tree

By AustinTalks | January 7, 2013

Recycled trees will be accepted from Jan. 5-18 at 23 different drop-off locations in the city.

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Shakespeare at Austin Town Hall Park Wednesday

By AustinTalks | July 31, 2012

The free Aug. 1 event will present a 3:30 p.m. performance of “The Taming of the Shrew,” one of many stops by the theater parks tour running through Aug. 19.

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An apology to our readers

By AustinTalks | September 8, 2011

Columns published by Edward Egypt Williams have been removed from the site because they had been published elsewhere first.

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VOISE students interning at Field Museum

By AustinTalks | August 28, 2011

Their experience is helping them decide what to pursue in college – and beyond.

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Tour Columbus Park and help clean it up

By AustinTalks | August 24, 2011

Stretch your mind and legs Aug. 27th with the Chicago Conservation Corp. Bike ride begins at 9 a.m.

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  • 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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