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Don’t miss Friday’s Christmas celebration, food basket giveaway

By AustinTalks | December 15, 2022

The event will be held 7 p.m. Dec. 16 at Better Life Faith Church International, 5401 W. Lake St.

Community

Thursday is deadline to donate toys, clothing

By AustinTalks | December 14, 2022

Donations will be accepted until Dec. 16th at Fathers Who Care, 4540 W. Washington Blvd. The office is open weekdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Buy

Shop for Kwanzaa at Columbus Park Refectory later this week

By AustinTalks | December 13, 2022

The two-day small business expo will be held from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Dec. 16 and 17. There’s still room for vendors interested in selling their products.

Community

Attend free holiday musical, dinner on Monday

By AustinTalks | December 12, 2022

Doors open the Kehrein Center for the Arts, 5628 W. Washington Blvd., at 6 p.m. Dec. 12, and dinner will be served at 6:15 p.m. The show will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Community

Free Christmas concert in Austin on Sunday

By AustinTalks | December 10, 2022

The City Lights Orchestra will perform at the 6 p.m. concert, which will be held at the Kehrein Denter for the Arts, 5628 W. Washington Blvd.

aldermanic election

Who will be on the Feb. 28th ballot?

By AustinTalks | December 8, 2022

Chicago election officials will begin holding hearings on Dec. 12 to determine which West Side aldermanic candidates will remain on the ballot in the Feb. 28th election. Objections have been filed to two candidates challenging Ald. Chris Taliaferro. All three challengers to Ald. Jason Ervin also face hearings later this month.

Austin

Experts share perspectives about health equity on Chicago’s West Side

By Francia Garcia Hernandez | December 7, 2022

Panelists at a town hall held last month stressed the importance of having honest conversations about the disparities that West Side residents experience in the healthcare system.

Auction

Online auction of state’s unclaimed property held this week

By AustinTalks | December 6, 2022

The auction, operated by the state treasurer’s office, runs through Dec. 9.

Chicago

Several West Side businesses, groups get city grants

By AustinTalks | December 4, 2022

The grants awarded to West Side nonprofits and businesses in the third and final round of 2022 funding ranged from $62,535 to $4 million. City officials selected from more than 600 applications citywide.

Aspire Center

New fitness-themed pubic park to be unveiled in Austin

By AustinTalks | December 2, 2022

City officials and community leaders will take part in Saturday’s ribbon-cutting at the site of the former Emmett Elementary School, in the 5500 block of West Madison Street.

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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

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