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Illinois Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford will host her 11th annual back-to-school parade Sunday, Aug. 9 at Brookfield Zoo. There will be free snacks, school supplies, backpacks and more at the drive-thru event, which will take place at the south entrance lot near the high school from 12 to 2 p.m.
No questions will be asked at the Aug. 8 event at Hope Community Church, 5900 W. Iowa. People who turn in a gan will receive $100, while those who bring a BB gun, air gun and replicas will be given $10 per weapon.
The Austin Green Team continues its “virtual movie in the garden” at 7:30 p.m. Aug. 5.
A $25 million community center would be developed in Austin through a city-owned land sale recently introduced in the Chicago City Council. The proposed North Austin Community Center would be constructed on five acres of vacant, city-owned land at North Laramie Avenue and West Moffat Street.
Schedule your 15-minute appointment between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 3. Appointments may be made online, by phone or via email, and will be held in Cook County Commissioner Brandon Johnson’s 1st district office at 6614 W. North Ave.
Clerk of the Circuit Court Dorothy Brown is hosting a “second chance” virtual expungement summit Aug. 1 from 9 to 11 a.m. Participants must have their rap sheets and/or criminal records to register for Saturday’s event.
Austin Coming Together in partnership with the Greater Chicago Food Depository will be distributing food from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. July 30, while Forty Acres Fresh Market will hold its weekly pop-up market at Austin Town Hall from 1 to 6 p.m.
Walk-ups are welcome from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday and Friday at the North Austin library branch, 5724 W. North Ave. No IDs are required; free masks, hand sanitizer and community resources will be available.
Although Illinois has one of the country’s tougher gun laws, the neighboring Hoosier state doesn’t, which means illegal guns keep flowing into Chicago, says Austin lawmaker La Shawn Ford. He’s pushing legislation to stop the flow of illegal guns from nearby states.
Children ages 0 to 5 can get free books through Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library. Online registration is required.