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Don’t miss today’s deadline

By AustinTalks | October 7, 2014

If you want to vote in the Nov. 4 elections, you have until tonight at midnight to get registered online.

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Grants available to remodel apartment buildings

By Cara Ball | October 2, 2014

The Austin Ascending Project’s aim is to promote the West Side as a desirable community where people of all races can live and value each other.

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Free screenings at Austin churches Sunday

By AustinTalks | September 27, 2014

Several West Side faith communities will be participating in the health initiative.

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Austin youth perform Wednesday

By Jessica Wenck | September 24, 2014

Street-Level Youth Media will hold its annual benefit at Sullivan Galleries, 33 S. State St.

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Chicago Fire in Austin today

By AustinTalks | September 22, 2014

Streets were blocked in and around the 5700 block of West Race Avenue, and TV trucks were parked just west of the Austin Town Hall.

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Local health center wins $350,000 grant

By AustinTalks | September 18, 2014

The funding from Humana Foundation will be used to create a community farm in an 8,000-square-foot lot across the street from the Austin PCC.

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West Siders to take part in AIDS walk/run

By Jessica Wenck | September 12, 2014

It’s not too late to register for Sunday’s event at Grant Park.

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Foreclosure continues to plague West Siders

By Jessica Wenck | September 8, 2014

Recent reports by the Lawyer’s Committee for Better Housing and the Woodstock Institute show housing woes still a problem for Austin.

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Local students to see fewer familiar faces this year

By Keyanna Johnson | September 2, 2014

About 65 teachers and staff lost their jobs on the West Side in the latest round of CPS layoffs.

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New community garden coming to Austin

By Jessica Wenck | August 28, 2014

Youth Outreach Services will unveil the new space from 12 to 2 p.m. Saturday at 5910 W. Division St.

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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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