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Austin residents: We’re fed up with treatment by police

By Austin Weekly News | December 18, 2014

In the wake of the Ferguson decision, Greater St. John Church hosted a community meeting earlier this month.

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Chicago filmmaker seeks community input

By Cara Ball | December 16, 2014

The new film features students and teachers from Spencer Elementary Technology Academy.

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West Side youth get involved in local politics

By T.J. Kremer III | December 14, 2014

About 200 students from 30 schools across the city participated in this weekend’s Mikva Challenge campaign kickoff.

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Six candidates challenged in 29th Ward race

By Reema Amin | December 12, 2014

Hearings are being held by the Chicago Board of Elections to determine whose names will appear on the Feb. 24 ballot.

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Hearing set for today for two men seeking to remain on 37th Ward ballot

By Reema Amin | December 10, 2014

The Chicago Board of Elections will review complaints challenging the candidacies of Leroy Duncan and Otis Percy Jr.

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Youth plea for end to violence

By T.J. Kremer III | December 8, 2014

Students at Austin’s Banner Academy held a press conference Friday to push for peace.

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New Cook County commissioner takes office

By Austin Weekly News | December 7, 2014

Richard Boykin represents the 1st District, and Adam Salzman, an Oak Park village trustee, is his policy director.

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Twelve candidates seeking the 29th Ward seat

By Reema Amin | December 3, 2014

Only two other of the city’s 50 wards had more people submitting their petitions for the Feb. 24th election.

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Five candidates file for 37th Ward race

By Reema Amin | December 2, 2014

Leroy Duncan, Maretta Brown-Miller, Otis Percy and Tara Stamps are challenging Ald. Emma Mitts.

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West Side gets fresh approach to grocery delivery

By T.J. Kremer III | November 24, 2014

Crisp! Mobile Produce is targeting Austi with a low-cost delivery service that was featured last week at Loretto Hospital.

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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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