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You are invited to take part in community service day

By AustinTalks | June 27, 2017

Join state Rep. La Shawn Ford and several Boy and Girl Scout troops from 5 to 6 p.m. June 28 at 5601 W. Corcoran. There will be free food and music.

Community

Don’t miss your chance to perform alongside the pros

By AustinTalks | June 23, 2017

The Chicago Philharmonic will be performing at 6 p.m. Saturday, June 24 at Columbus Park Refectory. The rehearsal for the side-by-side performance will be at 3:30 p.m.

Community

Community celebration Friday at Columbus Park

By AustinTalks | June 22, 2017

Stop by from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. for a day of fun, free food and activities. The parade starts at Cicero and Jackson at 11 a.m.

Community

Watch and discuss the movie “13th” with state Rep. Camille Lilly

By AustinTalks | June 22, 2017

Seventeen-year-olds and almost 17-year-olds are invited to view the Netflix documentary – which analyzes the criminalization of African Americans and the prison boom – from noon to 3:30 p.m. June 23 at By the Hand, 415 N. Laramie.

Community

Free performance today in Austin

By AustinTalks | June 21, 2017

The Elgin-based Annie Young Gospel Blues Band will be performing at 3 p.m. June 21st at Austin Town Hall as part of Make Music Chicago.

Community

Free meals for needy youth started this week

By AustinTalks | June 15, 2017

Light of Liberty Church, at 2 Washington Blvd. in Oak Park, will serve free lunch through Aug. 18, while New Life Ministries, 634 N. Austin Blvd., will provide both breakfast and lunch from July 10 through Aug. 18.

Ald. Chris Taliaferro

29th Ward alderman wants your input on how to spend nearly $1 million

By AustinTalks | June 13, 2017

The first of three meetings being held to discuss which neighborhood projects should be funded with “menu money” is set for June 14 at Amundsen Park. Two other gatherings are planned for Rutherford-Sayre Park and the Columbus Park Refectory later this month.

Austin

Can Blues tourism benefit the West Side?

By AustinTalks | June 6, 2017

Join in on the discussion June 7 from 6 to p.m. An expert panel will explore the ways this rich tradition can help draw visitors to Austin.

Community

Town hall on preventing violence set for this week

By AustinTalks | June 4, 2017

Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin is hosting the event 10 a.m. to noon June 10.

Community

Donations being accepted for week-long benefit to fund Circle Urban Food Pantry

By AustinTalks | June 2, 2017

Contributions can be made in person or online until June 9th. The goal is to raise at least $3,000.

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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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