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Residents learn more about string of attacks

By Ellyn Fortino | October 14, 2011

Some West Siders complain about how long it took police to alert the community.

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Austin youth learn the dangers of unsafe driving

By Vee L. Harrison | August 5, 2011

Teens attend workshop at Marshall High School to learn how to stay safe on the road.

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Hundreds stand in unity on Madison

By Mario Lekovic | July 5, 2011

This year’s 100 Blocks & 100 Churches ended a month of prayer with a unity chain as West Side residents continue their fight against violence.

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Join unity chain tonight along Madison Avenue

By AustinTalks | June 29, 2011

The 15th and 11th Police Districts host their 2nd annual 100 blocks/100 churches grand finale from 6 to 7. The unity chain comes at the end of a month of prayer and speaking out against violence on the West Side.

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Chicago Police proposal would have shifted more officers to West Side

By AustinTalks | June 15, 2011

Former Superintendent Jody Weis told the Chicago Sun-Times that his plan showed the city had enough officers if properly deployed.

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Community gears up for summer – and uptick in crime

By Angela Evans | June 2, 2011

Starting tonight, residents in the 11th and 15th Police Districts will stand on street corners in June as part of the 100 Blocks & 100 Churches initiative.

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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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