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Ella Flagg Young teachers join strike

By Austin Weekly News | September 12, 2012

Austin advocate Dwayne Truss snapped photographs of faculty on the picket lines Tuesday, day two of school closures due to failed contract negotiations.

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Two-man face-off in 7th congressional district

By Austin Weekly News | January 7, 2012

Challenger Jacques Conway and incumbent Danny K. Davis talk to our partners at the Austin Weekly News. See what they said.

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Austin residents uneasy about flood response

By Austin Weekly News | August 12, 2011

About 200 residents packed a meeting recently seeking help and looking for answers.

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Moo and Oink scrambling to find buyer

By Austin Weekly News | August 10, 2011

Our partners at the Austin Weekly News report that if there are no takers, the company could be liquidated and the grocery stores closed.

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Austin Green Team holds garden tour

By Austin Weekly News | August 4, 2011

The annual event showcases the beauty of Austin.

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Juneteenth festival starts today

By Austin Weekly News | June 16, 2011

The six-day event runs through Tuesday at Garfield Park.

Opinion

Goodbye Mayor Daley – and good riddance, writes one local commentator

By Austin Weekly News | May 15, 2011

Austin Weekly News columnist Arlene Jones reflects on Richard Daley’s 22-year tenure and what it meant for the black community.

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Peace Corner opens new youth center

By Austin Weekly News | April 17, 2011

Dozens attended the celebration last weekend. See what the new facility looks like.

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Some upset about cars being towed

By Austin Weekly News | April 15, 2011

Residents of the 4600 block of West Jackson say outgoing 24th alderman is to blame.

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Fate of Austin high school confuses some

By Austin Weekly News | March 11, 2011

Parents and students are still sorting out what happened last week and the future of Austin Business and Entrepreneurship Academy.

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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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