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The Austin United Alliance will hold a wealth-building webinar – “A Blueprint for Accessing the Capital We’ve Been Waiting For” – at 10 a.m. June 16. The focus will be on how to narrow the racial wealth gap that impacts Austin and other West Side communities.
West Side United awarded 39 businesses $10,000 grants in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic to help keep them afloat. Another round of funding will open in September.
The first Austin Town Hall farmers market of the season will be held from 1 to 6 p.m. June 10. It will continue on Thursdays through Sept. 30.
About 20 Austin youth have been working on a plan to help combat violence in the neighborhood. Starting June 29th, on every Tuesday and Thursday from 2 to 7 p.m., which are peak hours for violence, the community will have access to activities in arts and culture, fitness, dance, healing circles and sports, among other activities, in the safe zone.
Austin residents ages 13-19 are invited to use the YOUmedia space at the Austin branch, 5615 W. Race Ave., Mondays through Thursdays. Teens can play video games, create files for 3D printing and vinyl cutting, or just hang out.
All are welcome to play Saturday, June 5 at Columbus Park. Mutli-aged and mixed gender teams are welcome at the event, which is sponsored by Michele Clark High School, Parent University-Austin and the Chicago Police Department’s 15th District.
Sgt. Jermaine Harris of the Chicago Police Department’s 15th District shared the good news Tuesday at the monthly meeting of West Side faith-based leaders. “No lives were lost to gun violence in Austin,” he said. Harris thanked ministers and others for being out in the community over the three-day weekend, noting, “It does make a difference, us being present.”
About 30 people gathered at the start of Memorial Day weekend at the 29th Ward Veterans Peace Garden, 5413 W. Madison St., to celebrate the life of Robert Thomas and other veterans.
At last week’s 29th Ward meeting, Ald. Chris Taliaferro said it was time to move past The Loretto Hospital’s vaccine scandal and not let it overshadow the other work the hospital is doing. He also commented on proposals to reform the Chicago Police Department.
Valerie F. Leonard, founder of Nonprofit Utopia, warns residents of predominantly Black neighborhoods their rights will be diminished under approved legislative maps awaiting Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s signature.