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Community development expert Valerie Leonard will be the guest speaker July 12 at Gone Again Travel & Tours, 5940 W. Chicago Ave., as residents continue to discuss how to use blues and soul to develop the West Side.
Longtime West Side resident James Bowers says the community should seize the opportunity to turn the Laramie State Bank Building into an arts, culture and history museum.
The Chicago Westside NAACP chapter’s youth council will hold a talent competition at 5 p.m. Dec. 28th.
The Austin Town Hall will host the free, two-day event that features performers, food and more.
7th and 8th graders from Ella Flagg Young and Duke Ellington Elementary schools who participated in the 21st Century’s Beyond the Bell summer program performed Friday.
The event, hosted by St. Joseph Services, will be held Friday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at St. Angela School, 1332 N. Massasoit Ave.
The event was part of Circle Urban Ministries’ LIFT program designed to empower youth through the arts.
Track E sixth-graders have until 5 p.m., March 26 to submit the application, two letters of recommendation and their most recent report card for a West Side program that will help kids prepare for college.
The March 15 event at Austin Town Hall Park brought residents together to dicuss what improvements in arts and culture are needed in their communities.
The March 15 meeting is a series of events being held throughout the city to share stories and ideas about arts and culture in Chicago neighborhoods.