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Tonight’s event will feature dozens of West Side performers, including the Good Neighbor Girls – a new Austin dance group – from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Davis Play Lot, 5437 W. Division St.
Community meetings and rehearsals have been set in the 29th and 37th Wards for the citywide Crowd Out performance at Millennium Park Oct. 1. The program is sponsored and coordinated by Illinois Humanities.
The layoffs will hurt West Side students and the community as a whole, educators and advocates say.
More than 50 people gathered outside Friendship Baptist Church, at 5200 W. Jackson Blvd., a day after Sunday morning’s shooting to speak out against the violence and urge people everywhere to fight for safe neighborhoods for all.
The mural, named Wake Up, was completed by 14 young people from Austin and Oak Park this summer at Central Avenue and Lake Street as part of a summer program organized by the Oak Park Area Arts Council.
Residents in the 900 block came together – as have many other blocks across Austin this summer – to share food, fellowship and hope for the future.
Last weekend’s discussion, hosted by state Rep. Camille Lilly and Cook County State’s Attorney Kimberly Foxx, addressed public concerns about the criminal justice system and community policing.
Police, residents came together once again for their annual community block party held in Chicago and other U.S. cities every summer.
About 200 people participated last weekend in the first of three community summits organized by Austin Coming Together and LISC Chicago.
West Side artists are working on projects in collaboration with members of the Chicago City Council under the city’s $1 million initiative to install art in all 50 wards.