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Primary voters go to the polls Tuesday

By AustinTalks | March 17, 2014

Numerous races – including the open 1st District Cook County Board seat – appear on the March 18 ballot. Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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Deadline extended for Local School Council applicants

By AustinTalks | March 13, 2014

Applicants have until 3 p.m. Friday, March 14 to turn in materials that will get them on the April 7 and 8 ballot.

Opinion

Protest march planned for Thursday in Austin

By AustinTalks | March 12, 2014

Parents and teachers will march from DePriest School to the now-closed Emmet Elementary to put the spotlight on standardized testing and the right for students to opt out.

Community

Funeral for missing teen’s mom set for Sunday

By AustinTalks | March 7, 2014

Services for Rose Starnes will be held Sunday at Greater St. John Bible Church. She died seven years after Yasmin Acree disappeared.

Community

Austin school closed last year on endangered building list

By AustinTalks | March 6, 2014

Preservation Chicago included Francis Scott Key Elementary School, which now sits empty.

News

Voters can go to the polls early

By AustinTalks | March 4, 2014

Fifty-one sites throughout the city will be open through March 15.

News

Cook County Board hopefuls square off

By AustinTalks | March 1, 2014

Four of the five candidates running for the 1st District seat answered questions earlier this week at a forum in Oak Park.

Opinion

Local NAACP chapter pushes for criminal justice reforms

By AustinTalks | February 27, 2014

The local branch urges everyone to get involved in the fight for economic and social justice. These issues will be discussed at a conference in April and at local meetings the first Saturday of every month.

Community

25th District offers computer course Saturday

By AustinTalks | February 27, 2014

The Chicago Police Department will show residents how to use its web site to stay safe. If you can’t make it this weekend, another class will be offered March 29.

News

Group working to unite Austin and Oak Park residents

By AustinTalks | February 26, 2014

At a recent meeting, one woman urged people to support businesses on the West Side, while others encouraged volunteers to pitch in.

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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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