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Community fair Saturday

By AustinTalks | December 11, 2014

The event will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Dec. 13 at Austin Town Hall, 5610 W. Lake St.

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Pre-Christmas health and wellness fair today

By AustinTalks | December 9, 2014

The event – free for seniors 55 and up – will be held from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Dec. 9 at Austin Town Hall, 5610 W. Lake St.

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Health fair Saturday will help residents learn about Obamacare

By AustinTalks | December 5, 2014

Free screenings and demonstrations also available at the free event, which will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Hartgrove Hospital, 5730 W. Roosevelt Road.

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Town hall set for tonight

By AustinTalks | December 4, 2014

Local residents will discuss Chicago’s response to Ferguson from 6 to 8 p.m. at Greater St. John Bible Church, 1256 N. Waller.

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Holiday concert Saturday

By AustinTalks | December 3, 2014

The Westside Instructional String and Harp program will perform from 12 to 1 p.m. Dec. 6 at Garfield Park Golden Dome, 100 N. Central Park.

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Don’t miss Austin’s 10th annual holiday parade and tree lighting

By AustinTalks | November 30, 2014

The parade starts at 6 p.m. Dec. 4th at the corner of Madison and Cicero, and the tree lighting is set for 7:15 p.m. outside the 15th District police station, 5701 W. Madison.

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West Side youth to appear in Thanksgiving parade

By AustinTalks | November 26, 2014

Watch the Chicago West Community Music Center from 8 to 11 a.m. Thursday.

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West Side elected officials react to Ferguson

By AustinTalks | November 25, 2014

State Rep. La Shawn Ford and U.S. Congressman Danny K. Davis say relations between African-American communities and the police must improve, and there needs to be a true commitment to community policing.

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Free early Thanksgiving dinner this Thursday

By AustinTalks | November 18, 2014

The event, sponsored by several West Side groups and elected officials, begins at 4:30 p.m. Nov. 20 and will be held at George Leland Elementary School, 512 S. Lavergne.

Community

Mentoring matters

By Jannie Kirby | November 17, 2014

Youth Guidance provides social and emotional school-based programs that help at-risk Chicago children.

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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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