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Exhibit highlights young artists

By Michael Sandler | June 2, 2011

Don’t miss the public viewing Friday at Austin Town Hall.

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Fresh Moves bus making stops in Austin

By Bonni McKeown | May 31, 2011

Food Desert Action brings produce to the West Side each week. Check out where you can shop next.

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Austin churches help Alabama tornado victims

By Vee L. Harrison | May 30, 2011

Religious leaders plan to conduct similar missions to other parts of the country.

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Meeting held to discuss student suspensions at Austin Polytech

By Jon Graef | May 28, 2011

The students have been reinstated but the status of seven teachers who were dismissed remains the same.

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Rod Blagojevich recalls his father’s laundromat in Austin

By AustinTalks | May 27, 2011

In his first day of testimony, the ex-governor briefly mentions the business as well as what happened on the West Side after Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination.

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Austin Poly Tech students fight for fired teachers

By AustinTalks | May 26, 2011

The group traveled Downtown Wednesday to speak to the Chicago Board of Education about what’s happening at the school, according to the Chicago News Cooperative.

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It’s that time of year again

By Josh Newkirk | May 26, 2011

The Westside Big League Baseball league’s season has begun.

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Movie shows how girls are targeted for prostitution

By Sarah Ostman | May 25, 2011

There will be a discussion and a free screening of “Very Young Girls,” which starts at 5:30 p.m. today.

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More police to be deployed in Austin

By AustinTalks | May 24, 2011

It’s not clear how many new officers will be assigned to the West Side starting Sunday.

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West Side teens perform day of service

By Jennifer T. Lacey | May 24, 2011

Students at Chicago Talent Development Academy cleaned up in their West Garfield neighborhood.

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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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