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Opinion

Shots fired

By Terry Redmond | May 30, 2014

There’s yet another shooting in Austin, and one resident says enough is enough.

News

Police take longer to respond to 911 calls on West Side

By AustinTalks | March 31, 2014

A new report by the Chicago Sun-Times shows Districts 11, 15 and 25 lag behind many other areas of the city.

News

Austin residents call for equal emergency services, police in Chicago Tribune opinion article

By AustinTalks | February 4, 2013

Ron and Serethea Reid of the Central Austin Neighborhood Association said they are concerned about what they say is a slow 911 response time from police.

News

Fate of police deployment, 911 responsiveness lawsuit uncertain

By Ellyn Fortino | August 7, 2012

A Cook County judge hear arguments last month in the lawsuit filed by the Illinois ACLU and Central Austin Neighborhood Association seeking the city to change the way it deploys police officers.

Community

City looking for ways to reduce crime

By AustinTalks | June 27, 2012

The increase in homicides has Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Police Department looking for ways to keep residents safe.

News

Police response slow in Austin compared to Near North neighborhoods

By Serethea Reid | February 14, 2012

Data showing inequities in the number of police dispatched prompted a lawsuit against the city, but residents have not seen improvements.

Community

Austin group joins ACLU in lawsuit against city

By AustinTalks | October 28, 2011

The suit contends the Chicago Police Department doesn’t properly staff minority neighborhoods.

News

Firefighters, police officers visit West Side school to mark 9/11

By Ellyn Fortino | September 11, 2011

Students, faculty and staff at Al Raby School for Community and Environment commemorated the terrorist attacks by planting a tree, painting a rock and learning what’s changed in the last decade.

News

Chicago’s top cop talks crime

By Sarah Ostman | July 21, 2011

Austin residents packed a meeting room earlier this week to hear Garry McCarthy’s take on fighting crime.

News

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.

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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