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Austin Polytech students protest firings

By AustinTalks | May 20, 2011

Upset about several teachers being let go, more than 100 students walked out of classes earlier this week, according to the Chicago News Cooperative.

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Anti-violence forum just in time for spring break

By Devin Katayama | April 13, 2011

Parents and community members learn tips on how to keep youth safe when they’re out of school.

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CPS reviews Catalyst-Howland school’s contract

By Jennifer T. Lacey | March 18, 2011

The charter is seeking permission to continue operating for another five years in North Lawndale.

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Fate of Austin high school confuses some

By Austin Weekly News | March 11, 2011

Parents and students are still sorting out what happened last week and the future of Austin Business and Entrepreneurship Academy.

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Three high schools will continue on Austin campus

By Austin Weekly News | March 3, 2011

The 5-year-old Austin Business and Entrepreneurship Academy will transition from a contract school to one run by Chicago Public Schools at the end of this school year.

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Advocates push for magnet school in Austin

By Jennifer T. Lacey | January 28, 2011

The Chicago Board of Education approved another magnet in University Village, causing some to question why the West Side isn’t being considered for such a school.

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Austin Coming Together hears education concerns at listening event

By Sarah Ostman | January 27, 2011

West Side residents are invited to another session Feb. 15th to share their views. The group also elected its first board of directors today.

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Teen moms will have another place to go

By Ann McArthur | December 22, 2010

A New Moms Inc. facility is set to open in the spring at 5327 W. Chicago Ave. State officials have applied for federal money to provide comprehensive sex education.

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Austin High School campus alive with dance

By Darryl Holliday | December 21, 2010

Students participating in After School Matters performed a winter dance celebration last week. See what you missed!

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Some Austin schools lack libraries

By Sarah Ostman | December 14, 2010

Illinois has been hit harder than other states when it comes to funding of libraries. Find out which West Side public school doesn’t have one.

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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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