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Austin youth represented in Louder than a Bomb

By AustinTalks | March 6, 2013

Students from West Side schools participated in the annual poetry competition, which ends this weekend.

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Enjoy a meal with neighbors on Saturdays

By AustinTalks | February 28, 2013

Bethel Lutheran Church is sponsoring “Taste and See” community meals at four locations.

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West Side job fair at Peace Corner Youth Center

By AustinTalks | February 26, 2013

Hiring managers will be on site Feb. 28 at the Peace Corner Youth Center, 5022 W. Madison St., from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

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Screening of “Bring Your A Game” and panel discussion at Sankofa

By AustinTalks | February 21, 2013

The event is Feb. 22 at the Sankofa Cultural Arts Center from 6 to 9 p.m.

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Stories and music at Inspiration Kitchen

By AustinTalks | February 21, 2013

Enjoy two nights of free live music and story telling in Garfield Park Feb. 22 and March 15.

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Westside Health Authority diabetes seminar Wednesday

By AustinTalks | February 20, 2013

The free Feb. 20 diabetes information session is from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Austin Town Hall, 5610 W. Lake St.

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BUILD offers health and wellness workshops, youth programs

By AustinTalks | February 18, 2013

Various free programs throughout the week are held at BUILD headquarters, 5100 W. Harrison St.

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Bethel New Life small business center open house

By AustinTalks | February 18, 2013

The public can take a tour of the West Side’s Illinois Small Business Development Center Feb. 20 starting at 5 p.m.

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Memorial services, funeral held this weekend for Ald. Mitts’ mother

By AustinTalks | February 14, 2013

Visitation services will be held Friday from 3 to 8 p.m. at the Wallace Broadview Funeral Home, 2020 W. Roosevelt Rd. The wake and funeral are Saturday.

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Learn about the Great Migration at the library

By AustinTalks | February 8, 2013

A librarian, historian and archivist will share an exciting history lesson about Chicago and the Great Migration Feb. 19 at the West Chicago Avenue Library.

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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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