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Marconi students to perform at Park West this weekend

By Jennifer T. Lacey | April 5, 2011

The April 9th show is sold out, but you can see some of the performers here on AustinTalks.

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Austin artists raise awareness with exhibition

By Jennifer T. Lacey | April 1, 2011

Today, from 4 to 8 p.m., is the last day to see the Wired Art exhibition at the Austin Wellness Center, 4800 W. Chicago Ave. Admission is free.

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Move Me Soul appears at the Chicago Theater

By Jennifer T. Lacey | March 30, 2011

The dance troupe comprised of students from the Austin high school campus as well as others from the West Side took part in the March 23 show. See what you missed.

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Austin dance students will compete in After School Matters event

By Jennifer T. Lacey | March 22, 2011

Move Me Soul, a 30-member troupe, hopes to repeat last year’s showing when it won a best campus award.

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CPS reviews Catalyst-Howland school’s contract

By Jennifer T. Lacey | March 18, 2011

The charter is seeking permission to continue operating for another five years in North Lawndale.

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Advocates push for magnet school in Austin

By Jennifer T. Lacey | January 28, 2011

The Chicago Board of Education approved another magnet in University Village, causing some to question why the West Side isn’t being considered for such a school.

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Holidays kick off with parade in Austin

By Jennifer T. Lacey | December 13, 2010

West Siders turned out earlier this month for the Austin Chamber of Commerce’s sixth annual parade. Check out the video and photos.

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Street lights in some parts of Austin keep going out

By Jennifer T. Lacey | November 19, 2010

Residents should let Ald. Deborah Graham know what ward improvements they’d like for 2011.

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West Side represented in Bud Billikin parade

By Jennifer T. Lacey | August 15, 2010

Hundreds of thousands of Chicagoans came out Saturday to celebrate what has become a pre-back-to-school event, the Bud Billikin parade. Check out our video.

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West Side residents join in prayer to fight violence

By Jennifer T. Lacey | June 15, 2010

The next vigil will be held Friday at 7 p.m. at the corner of Laramie and Division.

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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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