mayoral race
Mayoral candidates talk West Side investment at NACCP forum
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Eight of the 14 candidates running for mayor Feb. 26th participated in last week’s forum, which was organized by the Chicago Westside chapter of the NAACP.
gang database
Inspector general seeks transparency in Chicago Police Department’s gang database
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City official Joe Ferguson is collecting information from the public as he works on a report about the gang database. Some West Side residents shared their concerns at a meeting last week about how inclusion in the database – said to number more than 100,000 people – could be hurting innocent people as well as those who’ve turned their lives around.
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Community event to support black-owned business in Austin
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The Austin African American Business Networking Association will host the event at Surf’s Up restaurant, 5815 W. Madison St.
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37th Ward candidates square off at forum
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Hear what Tommy O. Abina, Maretta Brown-Miller, Shanika J. Finley and Ald. Emma Mitts had to say.