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High school athletes juggle work and sport

By Jasmine Cannon | January 12, 2016

Athletes and all other students at Christ the King Jesuit College Preparatory participate in a unique corporate work-study program.

Community

Sign up next week for Chicago’s sidewalk program

By AustinTalks | January 8, 2016

Spots will fill up quickly for the chance to share repair costs with the city.

Barack Obama

Local residents invited to gun control discussion

By AustinTalks | January 6, 2016

Register for the Jan. 7th meeting sponsored by state Rep. La Shawn Ford.

Community

Public invited to discuss proposal to recall mayor

By AustinTalks | January 5, 2016

A town hall meeting will be held Jan. 9 in Austin to talk about Illinois House Bill 4356.

Bettie Jones

Local activists, residents to protest outside the 11th Police District

By AustinTalks | December 29, 2015

Several groups are calling for the removal of the officer who shot to death a 55-year-old woman and a 19-year-old neighbor last weekend.

Chicago Park District

Free week of fitness

By AustinTalks | December 27, 2015

Sign up now to work out from Jan. 2 to 10 at any of the dozens of facilities in Austin and across the city.

Community

We wish you a Merry Christmas

By AustinTalks | December 25, 2015

AustinTalks wishes you and yours the most happy of holidays. Thank you for your support!

Community

Local residents invited to Christmas party

By AustinTalks | December 18, 2015

Congressman Danny Davis, Ald. Chris Taliaferro, Commissioner Richard Boykin and Sankofa Safe Child Initiative are hosting the Dec. 21 event at Columbus Park Field House.

Community

Toy giveaway this weekend

By AustinTalks | December 18, 2015

Abundant Favor Worship Center will distribute presents after its 10 a.m. service Dec. 20.

Austin African American Business Networking Association

Annual Kwanzaa celebration set for later this month

By AustinTalks | December 15, 2015

Tickets are now available for the Dec. 26 event where Jody Bady, Issac Lewis and Debra Vines will be honored.

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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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