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Chicago Board of Elections

election 2019

Austin students served as judges for historical election

By Kendall Polidori | April 10, 2019

Twelve students from Orr Academy High School, including three Austin teens, worked the polls on April 2.

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Early voting began this week

By AustinTalks | February 12, 2015

Chicagoans can go to any one of 51 sites across the city to cast their ballots for the city council and mayor.

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Candidates removed, drop from 29th, 37th wards

By Reema Amin | January 14, 2015

Voters will get to choose among four in one race and eight in the other in the Feb. 24 election.

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Six candidates challenged in 29th Ward race

By Reema Amin | December 12, 2014

Hearings are being held by the Chicago Board of Elections to determine whose names will appear on the Feb. 24 ballot.

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Twelve candidates seeking the 29th Ward seat

By Reema Amin | December 3, 2014

Only two other of the city’s 50 wards had more people submitting their petitions for the Feb. 24th election.

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Several West Siders considering 29th Ward run

By AustinTalks | November 21, 2014

Candidates have until Nov. 24th to file their petitions to challenge Ald. Deborah Graham.

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Voters go to the polls today

By AustinTalks | November 4, 2014

Chicagoans may cast their ballots from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. Nov. 4.

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Few hundred complaints reported Feb. 22 in Austin-area wards

By Sarah Ostman | March 25, 2011

The Chicago Board of Election Commissioners said the issues they learned about were not out of the ordinary. Officials will be taking calls again April 5 when the runoff in the 24th Ward takes place.

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Judge orders 28th Ward candidate off the ballot

By Sarah Ostman | January 28, 2011

West Side residents will have three candidates to consider on the Feb. 22nd ballot.

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Ballot set in 28th Ward alderman’s race

By Sarah Ostman | January 14, 2011

Residents of the West Side ward will have four candidates to choose from in the Feb. 22nd election.

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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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