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Community

Free jazz concert Friday at Austin Town Hall

By AustinTalks | February 15, 2016

Pianist Erwin Helfer will commemorate his 80th birthday in a two-hour performance Feb. 19th with several other musicians.

Community

Session aims to improve African Americans’ health

By AustinTalks | February 11, 2016

State Rep. La Shawn Ford and several groups are sponsoring the Feb. 13th event at Westside Health Authority, 4926 W. Chicago. Ave.

black history month

African-American performer to appear at Austin church

By AustinTalks | February 10, 2016

Mama Kemba will assume the persona of a former slave at Third Unitarian’s annual black history lunch to raise money for the decades-old scholarship fund.

award

Special award ceremony set for Sunday

By AustinTalks | February 6, 2016

Congressman Danny Davis and the Sankofa Safe Child Initiative will honor several “heroes” at 3:30 p.m. Feb. 7th at Christian Love M.B. Church, 535 N. Spaulding Ave.

Anita Alvarez

Cook County state’s attorney candidates to meet Feb. 5 at forum

By AustinTalks | February 2, 2016

RSVP to the free event, which will be held at 6 p.m. Friday at Christ the King Jesuit College Preparatory School, 5088 W. Jackson Blvd.

Community

Tickets still available for Saturday performance and praisefest

By AustinTalks | January 29, 2016

Final Explosion will perform at 3:30 p.m. Jan. 30th at Douglass High School, 543 N. Waller.

BUILD

Free family event tonight in Austin

By AustinTalks | January 29, 2016

Take part in the fun and games from 6:30 to 10 p.m. Jan. 29 at Christ the King Jesuit College Prep, 5058 W. Jackson.

Community

Meet the 25th District police commander

By AustinTalks | January 28, 2016

The “meet and greet” with Anthony J. Escamilla will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Jan. 29th at 5555 W. Grand.

29th Ward

Ald. Chris Taliaferro to deliver his first state of the ward address

By AustinTalks | January 26, 2016

29th Ward residents are invited to attend the event 6:30 p.m. Jan. 27th at Amundsen Park, 6200 W. Bloomingdale Ave.

After School Matters

CPS students can sign up now for next After School Matters session

By AustinTalks | January 19, 2016

More than 300 programs at 70 locations across the city will be offered beginning Feb. 22.

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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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