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Chicago’s top cop talks crime
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Austin residents packed a meeting room earlier this week to hear Garry McCarthy’s take on fighting crime.
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Transportation officials get input about plan to make city more pedestrian friendly
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Find out what some Austin residents think should be done to make Chicago less car-dependent.
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Students prepare for UIC summer jazz academy
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Hear 12-year-old Austin resident Travis Feazell play and learn more about the program that starts today.
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Aldermen’s campaign cash flows out of Austin
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Elected officials say they try to make purchases within their wards. See how your aldermen spent his/her money.
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Controversy erupts over who should get credit for education reform law
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The head of Stand for Children takes credit for getting the legislation passed, causing lawmakers and other lobbying groups to cry foul.
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TIF program designed to benefit struggling neighborhoods does little to help Chicago’s most-populated community
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Just one Austin project- the Coca-Cola distribution facility at1401 N. Cicero Ave. – has been completed over the last decade.
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Just a handful of private-sector TIF projects approved in Austin over the last decade
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Only one has been completed, and details about some of the others are hazy.
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Austin dance group to compete in Las Vegas if it can raise enough money
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The troupe has to raise $4,000 in less than two weeks to participate in the 10th annual Hip-Hop International Dance Competition.
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Youth gear up for trip to Washington, D.C.
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Seven Chicago area teens will travel to the nation’s capital to advocate for changes in education policy as part of World Vision’s Youth Empowerment Project.
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West Side high school celebrates a milestone
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The first class of graduates at Austin Polytechnical Academy earned their diplomas last month. Read the final installment of the Chicago News Cooperative’s year-long series that chronicled the journal of three seniors.