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Several photos taken by deceased Austin photographer Dorrell Creightney were put up last month under the Laramie and Kinzie viaduct. The picture, selected by Austin photographer Vanessa Stokes and Ceightney’s daughter, were installed in the 37th Ward as part of the city’s 50 x 50 Neighborhoods Arts Project..
The initiative, funded by six sponsor families, will employ individuals to improve city areas with work like litter abatement, landscaping, graffiti removal and more over the next three years.
La Grange Park pastor Tim Hoekstra will join Austin residents as they participate in Saturday’s World Vision 6k – which is roughly the distance many living in Africa must walk to get clean water.
CPS officials released school-by-school budgets in April, three months earlier than last year.
Officials results from last month’s two-day election won’t be available until June, CPS officials say.
Johnson spoke to members of the Austin African American Business Networking Association at their monthly meeting. The former teacher and union organizer defeated the incumbent, Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin, in the March 20 Democratic primary
A resolution to rename parts of North Avenue after the former slave who became one of the most famous “conductors” on the Underground Railroad is pending in the Illinois House, according to our partners at the Austin Weekly News.
The good neighbor campaign will host the free events every two weeks in partnership with the Westside Health Authority and the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago.
An Illinois Senate committee held a hearing earlier this month to discuss the gang database. State Sen. Patricia Van Pelt wants the Chicago Police Department to stop adding names to the database until legislation can be passed.
Parents, teachers and school staff will be able to vote Wednesday at elementary schools and Thursday at high schools. In Austin, there will still be vacancies on 12 of the 17 LCSs, which will be filled before July 1 when all members begin serving.
City official Joe Ferguson is collecting information from the public as he works on a report about the gang database. Some West Side residents shared their concerns at a meeting last week about how inclusion in the database – said to number more than 100,000 people – could be hurting innocent people as well as those who’ve turned their lives around.
