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Community, family, leaders outraged by 7-year-old Austin girl’s death

By AustinTalks | June 29, 2012

Heaven Sutton’s death is yet another reminder of gang violence on the South and West Sides.

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Student art displayed at “Found in Austin” exhibit

By Ellyn Fortino | June 14, 2012

The June 8 showing revealed work produced by children at neighborhood schools inspired by the help of local artists.

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Austin’s Community Action Council looks for feedback for new area magnet school

By Ellyn Fortino | June 8, 2012

Those interested in attending the Tuesday June 12 meeting at Spencer Technology Academy should RSVP.

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Community screening of documentary On The Front Line

By AustinTalks | May 23, 2012

The film, which shows the consequences of violence and focuses on solutions to the community’s problems, will be shown several other times on the West Side.

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Drug hot spot shut down at Laramie and Adams avenues, but community presence still needed

By Ellyn Fortino | April 26, 2012

The 5200 block of West Adams Avenue will hold its first meeting Saturday, and more events and meetings will follow to address crime in the neighborhood.

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Healing Temple Head Start “Say No to Violence!” march Thursday

By AustinTalks | April 25, 2012

You can join the group at 10 a.m. tomorrow to show young people and the community your support to end violence.

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Austin LSCs elect new members, some schools citywide still looking to fill vacant seats

By Ellyn Fortino | April 24, 2012

Just as last week’s LSC results are released, CPS announced supplemental elections will be held May 18 at schools where not enough candidates ran to fill the council.

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Lots of stuff’s coming up this spring in Austin community gardens

By Deborah Kadin | April 23, 2012

Residents are encouraged to join those already tending vegetables and flowers at Root Riot’s Harambee plots or the new Ed Bailey-Leola Spann Community Garden scheduled to open in just a few weeks.

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Voting for Local School Council begins today

By AustinTalks | April 18, 2012

Elections for all CPS elementary schools will be held today from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. and the same time tomorrow at all high schools.

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Community seat to remain vacant at Louis Armstrong Elementary

By Sarah Ostman | April 17, 2012

Like others, the school won’t have enough candidates on Wednesday’s ballot to fill the open positions.

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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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