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Graham ahead in close race for 29th Ward committeeman

By AustinTalks | March 21, 2012

While other West Side contenders won in a landslide, the alderman and congressman are neck in neck.

Community

Official wants memorials removed from West Side

By AustinTalks | February 16, 2012

They’re not a “good look” for the community, says 28th Ward Ald. Jason Ervin.

Community

Missing Austin teen will be featured today on national TV program

By AustinTalks | January 25, 2012

Yasmin Acree, who disappeared in 2008, will be featured on TV One’s Find Our Missing, as part of a 10-episode docu-drama series that aims to bring attention to missing black Americans.

News

Two-man face-off in 7th congressional district

By Austin Weekly News | January 7, 2012

Challenger Jacques Conway and incumbent Danny K. Davis talk to our partners at the Austin Weekly News. See what they said.

Opinion

Nursing home says state misused power

By AustinTalks | October 27, 2011

Michele Catala, social service director of Columbus Manor Res Care Home, shares her side of the story.

News

Ald. Ervin wants TIF dollars to fund green projects

By AustinTalks | October 2, 2011

East Garfield Park experiment could be a model for saving energy.

Community

Residents, employees, community leaders protest proposed post office closings

By AustinTalks | September 29, 2011

The USPS says changes must be made, but the closures could harm communities and may be illegal.

Business

Two Moo & Oinks close, including one on the West Side

By AustinTalks | September 16, 2011

Austin residents have one less grocery store to shop at.

Opinion

Goodbye Mayor Daley – and good riddance, writes one local commentator

By Austin Weekly News | May 15, 2011

Austin Weekly News columnist Arlene Jones reflects on Richard Daley’s 22-year tenure and what it meant for the black community.

Business

Local business group celebrates 2010

By Austin Weekly News | December 28, 2010

The Austin Chamber of Commerce held its annual meeting and holiday celebration earlier this month at Circle Family Healthcare Network.

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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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