News
Local reporting on the West and South Sides will get a boost from $110,000 in funding
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Thirty-one projects will get grants of $2,000 or $10,000 from The Chicago Community Trust.
News
Time running out to sign up for Smart Savers
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Financial literacy classes begin soon, and there is room for 50-some participants in the program, run by Bethel New Life.
Community
Maywood Fine Arts presents spring ballet
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The Maywood Fine Arts dance school will perform Prokofiev’s Cinderella this Saturday.
Community
Learn how to manage your money
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The free two-hour seminar will be offered monthly starting this Friday.
News
New evidence uncovered in Yasmin Acree’s disappearance
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In a front-page story today, the Chicago Tribune reports it found the missing 15-year-old’s journal, which mentions a rape suspect who lived in the same building as Acree before she vanished.
News
Dozens turn out to celebrate bank agreement
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A crowd filled the parking lot of the U.S. Bank branch at Madison Street and Austin Boulevard to learn about the community benefits agreement the financial institution has reached with The Coalition to Save Community Banking. We’ll be posting more details soon.
News
Most TIF money since 2000 went to companies, nonprofits in the heart of Chicago
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Tax increment financing of private-sector projects bypassed parts of the West and South Sides, though some funding was approved for Austin.
News
Austin charter school to close in June
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Students at Austin Business and Entrepreneurship Academy will be able to attend either of the other two schools located in the same building or go elsewhere within CPS.
News
Chicago Police release age-enhanced photo of missing Austin teen
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Friends and family still hope that Yasmin Acree will be found.
News
Election Day has arrived
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See what AustinTalks has reported about the 28th, 29th and 37th wards as you go to the polls Tuesday.