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Support a local black-owned business

By AustinTalks | August 11, 2015

Stop by Bitoy’s Sweet Treats, 5957 W. Chicago Ave., at 1 p.m. Aug. 15.

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Summer concert tonight

By AustinTalks | August 6, 2015

The Chicago West Community Music Center’s ensemble will give a free performance 6 p.m. Aug. 7 at Garfield Park.

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Don’t miss “National Night Out” Aug. 4

By AustinTalks | August 2, 2015

The Chicago Police Department will be hosting events Tuesday night across the West Side, including at Moore Park and the 25th District HQ.

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Public invited to two-day festival celebrating art and culture

By AustinTalks | July 29, 2015

The free event will be held July 31 and Aug. 1 at Austin Town Hall. All are welcome!

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Birth center to host women’s night out series

By AustinTalks | July 24, 2015

The first event will be held Friday from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Berwyn.

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See a Shakespeare play in Austin

By AustinTalks | July 24, 2015

Come to Columbus Park at 4 p.m Sunday for the performance.

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Learn about the Austin P.O.W.E.R. 5K walk/run

By AustinTalks | July 24, 2015

Get registered at the 8 a.m. Saturday kickoff at Columbus Park. Come rain or shine!

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Community day at the movies

By AustinTalks | July 23, 2015

Join the Chicago Westside branch of the NAACP from 12 to 6 p.m. Saturday at the ICE Theatres, 3300 W. Roosevelt Road.

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Community cook out this Saturday in Levin Park

By AustinTalks | July 23, 2015

West Side residents are invited to the free event from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. in the 5400 block of West Ferdinand.

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Community parade, health fair set for Saturday

By AustinTalks | July 23, 2015

Registration begins at 8 a.m. July 25 for the 27th annual event.

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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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