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Celebrate Black History Month at West Side parks

By AustinTalks | February 7, 2013

The Chicago Park District is hosting a variety of programs and activities in February for people of all ages.

Community

Final Explosion team in need of temporary practice space

By AustinTalks | February 6, 2013

The dance troupe’s founder is asking for someone to donate a large room for a few hours for two days leading up to a Feb. 23 performance.

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Enjoy a free meal Saturday

By AustinTalks | February 1, 2013

Truth & Deliverance International Ministries will hold its monthly community meal Feb. 2 from 1 to 4 p.m., 5151 W. Madison St.

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West Side school closure community meetings

By AustinTalks | January 30, 2013

CPS will hold two meetings about neighborhood school closures Jan. 31 and Feb. 13 in the Austin-North Lawndale network.

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Circle Urban Ministries hosting “Ready for college?” forum

By AustinTalks | January 28, 2013

The Jan. 29 forum for high school students and parents starts at 6:30 p.m., 118 N. Central Ave.

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Illinois Heart female basketball team tryouts Saturday

By AustinTalks | January 25, 2013

Women 18-years-old and older can tryout Jan. 26 at Columbus Park from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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Meet the creator and cast of the Interrupters

By AustinTalks | January 21, 2013

As part of its Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, Christ the King Jesuit College Prep will screen the Interrupters with a presentation from the cast and creator Monday at 12:30 p.m.

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State Rep. Ford’s annual family health challenge

By AustinTalks | January 19, 2013

The event is Jan. 21 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at Percy Julian Middle School in Oak Park.

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Community calls on West Side Walmart to support Obama’s gun control initiative

By AustinTalks | January 18, 2013

Residents and community groups will meet at 11 a.m. Saturday in front of the West Side Walmart, 4650 W. North Ave.

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State of the 29th Ward address Wednesday night

By AustinTalks | January 16, 2013

The Jan. 16 ward meeting is at 7 p.m. at the Columbus Park Refectory, 5701 W. Jackson Blvd.

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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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