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Community

Free summer activities starting for youth

By AustinTalks | June 18, 2014

The Chicago Public Schools’ Safe Haven and LunchStop programs run through early August.

Community

Summer program for middle school students and new freshman

By AustinTalks | June 12, 2014

The application deadline for NEIU’s Beyond the Bell, B.L.A.S.T. and JumpStart programs is June 13.

Community

Free community fair Saturday

By AustinTalks | June 11, 2014

Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Inc. (Tau Gamma Omega chapter) is putting on the six-hour event, which will include presentations, prizes and health screenings.

Opinion

Activist urges politicians to choose Blake Seryce

By AustinTalks | June 11, 2014

Jim Allen wants the Austin resident and lawyer to replace state Rep. Derrick Smith, who was convicted Tuesday of bribery and will lose his seat in the Illinois House.

Community

North Avenue farmer’s market begins Sunday

By AustinTalks | June 5, 2014

Four other West Side markets start later this month.

Community

Summer recital this Saturday

By AustinTalks | June 3, 2014

The Chicago West Community Music Center will perform at 11 a.m. June 7 at the Garfield Park Conservatory.

Community

Chicago Sky holds clinic, practice at Christ the King

By AustinTalks | May 29, 2014

The West Side school celebrates the class of 2014. All 60 graduates have been accepted into college.

Community

Teens can apply now for summer program

By AustinTalks | May 27, 2014

After School Matters is accepting applications for paid apprenticeships and internships that start the week of June 23.

Community

See new film about homelessness this week

By AustinTalks | May 26, 2014

The movie will be screened May 29 at Austin Town Hall, followed by a discussion.

Community

March for peace Friday night

By AustinTalks | May 22, 2014

Build Inc. is sponsoring the 2-hour event, which starts at 7 p.m.

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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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