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affordable care act

Sign up starts Nov. 1 for Obamacare

By Rep. La Shawn Ford | November 1, 2017

Enrollment for 2018 coverage under the federal Affordable Care Act begins Nov. 1 and runs through Dec. 15. Enrollment for Medicare began in mid-October and ends Dec. 7.

Opinion

Economic justice needed now

By Rep. La Shawn Ford | September 26, 2017

State Rep. La Shawn Ford praises Austin business owners and urges banks to do a better job of supporting West Side businesses.

Opinion

Our state budget, the saga continues

By Rep. La Shawn Ford | August 14, 2017

State Rep. La Shawn Ford invites the Austin community to a town hall Aug. 31 to discuss the impact the new state spending plan will have on West Side residents and businesses.

Opinion

The importance of colors

By Rep. La Shawn Ford | May 18, 2017

State Rep. La Shawn Ford urges all of us to work together for a more united and colorful community and country.

AIDS

Today’s heroin epidemic similar to HIV/AIDS scourge in the 1980s

By Rep. La Shawn Ford | May 3, 2017

West Side residents can take action to protect their friends, family and neighbors from this sweeping problem that’s more deadly than gun violence and motor accidents.

Austin

Time for a new Austin high school

By Rep. La Shawn Ford | December 22, 2015

A community meeting to discuss the consolidation of Austin Polytechnical, Austin Business and Entrepreneurship and VOISE Academy will be held Jan. 13.

Opinion

Honoring the anniversary of Brown v Board of Education

By Rep. La Shawn Ford | May 19, 2014

State Rep. La Shawn K. Ford (D-Chicago) urges residents to keep fighting for equal education for all.

News

West Side schools to get money for capital projects

By Rep. La Shawn Ford | May 7, 2014

The funding will pay for play lots, air conditioning and other improvements.

Community

Win a free ticket to governor’s state of the state

By Rep. La Shawn Ford | January 16, 2014

Friday, Jan. 17 is the deadline to enter the contest put on by state Rep. La Shawn Ford.

Opinion

It’s time for change in 2013

By Rep. La Shawn Ford | January 2, 2013

State Rep. La Shawn Ford urges the governor to establish a commission to create a plan to address poverty.

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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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