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Local residents to clean up foreclosed home

By AustinTalks | December 6, 2011

The event begins at 11 a.m. Dec. 6 near May Elementary School.

Community

Urban Partnership Bank now open

By AustinTalks | November 22, 2011

The new Austin facility offers many big bank services with a community focus.

Community

Academy of Scholastic Achievement awarded grant

By AustinTalks | November 12, 2011

The Austin non-profit, public alternative high school received $2,000 from Community Bank of Oak Park River Forest.

Community

Afterschool program improves graduation rates

By AustinTalks | November 6, 2011

More than 100 Austin students participate in the Stay in School initiative, a collaboration between Exelon, ComEd and United Way.

News

Occupy the Hood begins in Austin

By AustinTalks | October 29, 2011

In solidarity with Occupy Chicago, local residents will gather Saturday morning to protest how tenants are being treated after their building was foreclosed.

Opinion

Nursing home says state misused power

By AustinTalks | October 27, 2011

Michele Catala, social service director of Columbus Manor Res Care Home, shares her side of the story.

News

Austin TIF has done little to revitalize West Side

By AustinTalks | October 19, 2011

The Chicago News Cooperative takes an in-depth look at one of Austin’s tax increment financing districts.

Community

Program aims to help 15,000 homeowners

By AustinTalks | October 18, 2011

Mortgage assistance is available to those who are unemployed or have had a significant loss in income.

Community

West Siders invited to be artists for the day

By AustinTalks | October 14, 2011

EveryBlock is sponsoring the event, which will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Community

Austin organizer to speak at international peacemaking event

By AustinTalks | October 12, 2011

Elce Redmond will present the opening keynote at the Christian Peacemaker Team’s 25th anniversary celebration

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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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