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Community group meets about state funding cuts

By Cara Ball | April 12, 2015

Austin residents learned how they could be affected by Gov. Bruce Rauner’s proposed budget reductions.

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Another West Side news outlet launches

By Cara Ball | April 9, 2015

The public is invited to learn more about The Westside Source 11:30 a.m. Saturday, April 11.

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Regime change in the 29th Ward

By T.J. Kremer III | April 8, 2015

Chicago Police Sgt. Chris Taliaferro will succeed Ald. Deborah Graham in May.

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Fifteen-year incumbent reelected in historic runoff

By Reema Amin | April 8, 2015

Ald. Emma Mitts defeated challenger Tara Stamps in a closely watched race.

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One West Side alderman hangs on, the other gets ousted

By AustinTalks | April 7, 2015

Deborah Graham lost her reelection bid, while Emma Mitts beat her challenger.

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Ald. Emma Mitts says her work not yet done

By Reema Amin | April 4, 2015

Three-term alderman wants to represent the 37th Ward for another four years.

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Tara Stamps says she’s the independent voice for the 37th Ward

By Reema Amin | April 3, 2015

The first-time candidate hopes Tuesday to beat the 15-year incumbent.

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One last look at the 29th Ward

By T.J. Kremer III | April 2, 2015

Ald. Deborah Graham and Police Sgt. Chris Taliaferro still wooing voters, raising campaign cash for the April 7 election.

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West Side blues musician portrayed on the big screen

By Cara Ball | March 30, 2015

The story of Larry Taylor’s musical family will be depicted as they struggled to survive in Chicago during the 1960’s and 1970’s.

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Ald. Mitts, Stamps duke it out in first debate

By Reema Amin | March 27, 2015

The 37th Ward candidates drew distinct differences between themselves during the AustinTalks/Austin Weekly News-sponsored event.

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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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