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Five years later, Austin teenager Yasmin Acree remains missing

By AustinTalks | January 15, 2013

The prayer vigil will be held at 11 a.m. Jan. 15 at the home of Yasmin’s family, 4842 W. Congress Pkwy.

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New businesses opening up on West Side

By Ellyn Fortino | January 14, 2013

A Bethel New Life training program is providing funding and education to 30 entrepreneurs on Chicago’s West Side.

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Rep. Ford’s bank fraud case moves to fact-finding phase

By Ellyn Fortino | January 12, 2013

The West Side representative’s attorney said after his court appearance on Friday, the discovery provided by the U.S. Attorney’s Office looks “favorable.”

Community

‘Movement for Justice and Jobs Now!’ community meeting

By AustinTalks | January 11, 2013

The Coalition of African American Leaders will hold a jobs and economic development meeting Jan. 12 at the New Mount Pilgrim Baptist Church. It starts at 2 p.m.

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CAPS program sees revitalization

By AustinTalks | January 10, 2013

Police district commanders will now be able to customize individual community-policing programs.

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The Black Star Project honors 108 youth killed in Chicago, 10 in Austin last year

By AustinTalks | January 10, 2013

The organization asks who will mourn for the hundreds of people killed in the city in 2012.

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Online petition to stop school closings, charter expansion

By Valerie Leonard | January 9, 2013

Community advocate Valerie Leonard is urging residents to sign the petition for it to appear on President Barack Obama’s “We the People” website.

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Austin Coming Together has a new leader

By Ellyn Fortino | January 8, 2013

The Rev. Reginald Bachus of Friendship Baptist Church replaced former executive director Amara Enyia.

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Where to recycle your Christmas tree

By AustinTalks | January 7, 2013

Recycled trees will be accepted from Jan. 5-18 at 23 different drop-off locations in the city.

Opinion

Playing politics with crime

By C. Dwayne West | January 4, 2013

C. Dwayne West calls on Chicago’s mayor and police superintendent for more youth and community-leader investment to help prevent neighborhood crime.

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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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