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Opinion

Economic justice needed now

By Rep. La Shawn Ford | September 26, 2017

State Rep. La Shawn Ford praises Austin business owners and urges banks to do a better job of supporting West Side businesses.

Community

Mortgage settlement brings praise and disapproval from West Side leaders

By AustinTalks | February 10, 2012

State Rep. Camille Lilly and South Austin Coalition’s Elce Redmond have different views, but both agree progress has been made and more work still needs to be done.

News

Poverty Action Campaign penning Austin’s manifesto

By Ellyn Fortino | January 24, 2012

Members, who will meet tonight, encourage residents to get involved and support initiatives to improve the community.

Community

Congressman Davis seeks hearing on abandoned properties

By AustinTalks | January 11, 2012

A recent federal report finds that taxpayers are paying for the surge in vacant properties.

News

Group works to fight foreclosures in Austin

By Michael Sandler | August 30, 2011

The Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign meets every other Tuesday night in Austin. The next meeting is set for tonight.

Community

Worried about losing your home or wanting to help others facing eviction?

By AustinTalks | June 23, 2011

Join the Austin Chapter of the Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign on Saturday on its foreclosure canvass.

News

Austin tops the foreclosure list in a new report

By AustinTalks | June 21, 2011

No other Chicago neighborhood recorded as many housing units taken over by the bank from January 2010 through March 2011.

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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