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29th Ward residents choose community projects to be funded in 2018

By Xueer Zhang | December 4, 2017

About 390 residents cast votes last month to decide how to spend Ald. Chris Taliaferro’s $1 million menu money. Sixty-five percent will go to street and alley resurfacing, while $312,500 will be spent on four community projects.

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Sexual harassment against female legislators must stop, West Side lawmakers say

By Xueer Zhang | November 23, 2017

State Sen.Kimberly Lightford, state Rep. La Shawn Ford and Ald. Emma Mitts shared their thoughts about how the Chicago City Council and Illinois General Assembly are addressing sexual harassment that they say has troubled female legislators, staffers and lobbyists for far too long.

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29th Ward residents, cast your votes now for 2018 community projects

By Xueer Zhang | November 8, 2017

Voting runs through Nov. 20th on five neighborhood projects on the list to be funded out of Ald. Chris Taliaferro’s $1.3 million “menu money” budget. This is the second year those living in the ward have been able to take part in “participatory budgeting.”

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29th Ward residents offer ideas on neighborhood projects to be funded

By Xueer Zhang | June 20, 2017

Ald. Chris Taliaferro is collecting ideas about how to spend $500,000 of $1.3 million allocated to the ward in “menu money.”

Ald. Chris Taliaferro

29th Ward alderman wants your input on how to spend nearly $1 million

By AustinTalks | June 13, 2017

The first of three meetings being held to discuss which neighborhood projects should be funded with “menu money” is set for June 14 at Amundsen Park. Two other gatherings are planned for Rutherford-Sayre Park and the Columbus Park Refectory later this month.

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West Side residents pushing to expand state alcohol law

By Terry Dean | February 19, 2017

Tired of seeing beer cans and empty bottles in the neighborhood, the South Austin Neighborhood Association wants the statute broadened to prohibit the sale of liquor within 100 feet of parks and playgrounds.

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Westside NAACP wants say in mayor’s new civilian police review agency

By Terry Dean | September 1, 2016

The civil rights group and 29th Ward Ald. Chris Taliaferro say a vote should not be rushed on the proposal to replace the troubled disciplinary body.

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Former governor brings mayoral term limit petition drive to Austin

By Terry Dean | July 15, 2016

Pat Quinn asked members of the South Austin Coalition Community Council to sign onto his referendum ballot proposal that seeks to limit Chicago’s mayor to two terms.

29th Ward

Results of 29th Ward’s first participatory budgeting initiative announced

By AustinTalks | June 13, 2016

Ald. Chris Taliaferro says $700,000 in funding will pay for six projects – ranging from community gardens and murals to pedestrian islands and park equipment. Six months of community meetings and two weeks of voting determined how the menu money will be spent.

29th Ward

29th Ward residents asked to vote on community projects

By Terry Dean | May 30, 2016

The last day to cast your vote is Saturday, June 4th. This is the first year West Siders have been asked to weigh in on how Ald. Chris Taliaferro will spend $700,000 in menu money.

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