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What do you want to ask the candidates?

By AustinTalks | March 20, 2015

Email austintalks@gmail.com the questions you think should be posed at the upcoming 29th and 37th Ward debates.

Community

Young people to compete in public speaking

By AustinTalks | March 17, 2015

The fifth annual competition will be held 6 to 8 p.m. March 19 at BUILD Inc., 5100 W. Harrison St.

Community

Debate set for 29th Ward candidates Deborah Graham, Chris Taliaferro

By AustinTalks | March 13, 2015

Former candidate Bob Galhotra will moderate the 60-minute event 7 p.m. March 18 at Redeemer Church, 6740 W. North Ave.

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City removing red-light cameras at one Austin intersection

By AustinTalks | March 11, 2015

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is scaling back the controversial system; challenger Jesus Chuy Garcia has vowed to get rid of all the cameras citywide.

Community

Helping female veterans

By AustinTalks | March 10, 2015

The Women’s Business Development Center (WBDC) will host the first of three events from 6 to 8 p.m. March 11 at Goodcity, 5049 W. Harrison St.

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West Side aldermantic candidates invited to discuss issues Wednesday

By AustinTalks | March 9, 2015

The forum, set for 6:30 p.m. March 11 at 5730 W. Division St., will be held one day after the deadline to register to vote in the April 7 runoff.

Community

Find out where the candidates stand

By AustinTalks | March 6, 2015

The Westside chapter of the NAACP is sponsoring forums March 26 for the 29th Ward and April 2 for the 37th Ward.

Community

BUILD names new leader

By AustinTalks | March 5, 2015

Adam M. Alonso is the next executive director of the Austin-based social services group.

Community

Support the Austin CBC Initiative today

By AustinTalks | March 4, 2015

A spring clothing drive benefiting the community-based health program will be held from 12 to 1:30 p.m. March 4 at the Westside Health Authority, 4800 W. Chicago Ave.

Community

Gov. Rauner appoints West Side minister to college board

By AustinTalks | February 27, 2015

Rev. Marshall Hatch, senior pastor of New Mt. Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church, will serve as a Chicago State University trustee.

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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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