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Austin Safety Net Works basketball kicks off new season

By AustinTalks | January 27, 2012

The workshop series focuses on building skills, having fun and enforcing healthy habits.

Community

Ald. Deborah Graham visits Catalyst Circle Rock Charter School

By AustinTalks | January 27, 2012

She spent the morning interacting with parents, students, teachers and administrators as part of Take Your Alderman to School Week.

Community

Rep. Ford hires Eighth District community and veterans outreach coordinator

By AustinTalks | January 23, 2012

The position, as well as a new bill he introduced in the House, aim to increase employment for those who’ve served our country.

Community

Check out Chicago ClearStreets

By AustinTalks | January 20, 2012

This new plow tracker map shows you which streets have been cleared and when.

Community

West Siders honored at Martin Luther King Jr. Day Awards Breakfast

By AustinTalks | January 20, 2012

The Leaders Network of Chicago recognized individuals for service and commitment to their community.

News

Final redistricting hearing set for tonight

By AustinTalks | January 18, 2012

After months of debate, a Chicago City Council vote to finalize the new boundaries for the 50 aldermanic seats could come this week or next.

Community

Holiday season celebrated

By AustinTalks | December 18, 2011

The Central Austin Neighborhood Association and Third Unitarian Church organized and hosted a free event last weekend.

Community

West Side celebrates third annual Soul Food Pow-Wow

By AustinTalks | December 11, 2011

The Nov. 20 event at St. Paul Lutheran Church and School featured the Mkhonto Fellowship Choir from South Africa and Chicago musician T.L. Williams.

Community

Live theater Friday at Westinghouse College Prep

By AustinTalks | December 8, 2011

The show is part of a series that offers an entertainment approach to community healing for West Side youth.

Community

Winter overnight parking ban resumes Dec. 1

By AustinTalks | December 1, 2011

In Austin, it covers West Division and West Madison streets and Central Avenue.

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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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