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CPS decides to turn Austin school over to private group

By AustinTalks | March 24, 2014

Ronald E. McNair Elementary will be operated by the Academy for Urban School Leadership starting with the 2014-2015 academic year.

News

New charter school welcomes community

By Reema Amin | October 28, 2013

Horizon Science Academy Belmont opened this fall in Austin, and student ambassadors recently gave a tour to local leaders, including Ald. Emma Mitts (37th).

News

Safe Passage routes unveiled for CPS students

By Katie Kather | August 16, 2013

Some question whether the right streets were chosen and if there was enough community input.

Opinion

A call for black representation

By Brandon Johnson | May 21, 2013

Austin resident, parent and teacher Brandon Johnson says that despite community objections to school closings, Mayor Rahm Emanuel and CPS CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett have made up their minds.

Opinion

Proposed school closings have former teacher frightened

By AustinTalks | April 18, 2013

In a letter to AustinTalks, a former educator said the anticipated shuttering of 54 schools is much worse than before.

News

Community meeting ends early due to low turnout

By Reema Amin | April 15, 2013

Austin parents and teachers boycott the Chicago Public Schools event for Key and Emmet, citing comments by Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

News

Chicago could close 80 schools by next year

By AustinTalks | March 7, 2013

New report suggests that CPS has the ability to close or shake up dozens of schools by next year.

News

Austin residents ready to fight closures

By Reema Amin | December 20, 2012

One woman urges residents at a recent community meeting to take more dramatic action to prevent West Side students from losing their schools.

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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