AustinTalks - News and information covering Chicago's Austin neighborhood on the West Side

AustinTalks (http://austintalks.org/category/news/page/93/)

  • Home
  • About
  • Community
  • News
  • Opinion
  • Events
  • Donate
  • Global Navigation
Subscribe

News

  • Related Topics:
  • election
  • Austin
  • Community
  • West Side
  • health
News

Several West Siders considering 29th Ward run

By AustinTalks | November 21, 2014

Candidates have until Nov. 24th to file their petitions to challenge Ald. Deborah Graham.

News

Teachers for Social Justice to host curriculum fair Saturday

By T.J. Kremer III | November 20, 2014

Registration is still open for the event, which will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at North Grand High School, 4338 W. Wabansia St.

News

Ride-share company recruits on West Side

By T.J. Kremer III | November 19, 2014

Uber held a job fair Monday in Austin to attract new drivers.

News

37th Ward hopefuls want to invest in schools, jobs

By Reema Amin | November 14, 2014

Four candidates are collecting signatures to challenge longtime Ald. Emma Mitts, who is seeking re-election Feb. 24.

News

Two Austin intersections rank on most-dangerous list

By Cara Ball | November 13, 2014

The Active Transportation Alliance wants to find out what West Siders think should be done to make the corners of Madison and Cicero and Chicago and Cicero safer for pedestrians and bicyclists.

News

Some push for West Side to be represented on new governor’s team

By Austin Weekly News | November 11, 2014

State Rep. La Shawn Ford calls for Gov.-elect Rauner to included.

News

West Side turnout higher, while city-wide numbers down

By T.J. Kremer III | November 10, 2014

Voters cast their ballots in greater numbers than the last midterm election in 2010.

News

State lawmaker avoids jail time

By T.J. Kremer III | November 7, 2014

Rep. La Shawn Ford received probation after federal prosecutors dropped felony charges.

News

CHA now accepting applications

By AustinTalks | November 5, 2014

Chicagoans have until Nov. 24 to apply for one of three programs: public housing, housing vouchers and apartments in privately owned subsidized housing.

News

Voters go to the polls today

By AustinTalks | November 4, 2014

Chicagoans may cast their ballots from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 4.

Load more posts

News

  • 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

Like Us on FacebookFollow Us on TwitterSubscribe via RSS

Search This Site

Browse Archives

© Copyright 2025, AustinTalks

Built with the Largo WordPress Theme from the Institute for Nonprofit News.

Back to top ↑