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Organizers call artist for a day a success

By AustinTalks | October 21, 2011

The Oct. 15 event brought West Siders together to celebrate community through arts and crafts.

Community

Austin group receives city-wide honor

By Ron Reid | October 16, 2011

Keep Chicago Beautiful Inc. gave the award to the Central Austin Neighborhood Association.

Community

West Siders invited to be artists for the day

By AustinTalks | October 14, 2011

EveryBlock is sponsoring the event, which will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

News

Residents learn more about string of attacks

By Ellyn Fortino | October 14, 2011

Some West Siders complain about how long it took police to alert the community.

News

AustinTalks awarded grant from Motorola Mobility Foundation

By AustinTalks | September 26, 2011

The support will be used to fund Speak Up, Speak Out for Austin, a new program for middle and high school students to share their stories and report on issues important to the West Side.

Opinion

What happened to our strong community?

By Susan Banks | September 20, 2011

Austin native Susan Banks laments what she sees since returning to the West Side to open a preschool.

News

Local man hopes new theater will be West Side Second City

By Jon Graef | September 1, 2011

The plans call for a 50- to 60-seat theater and technology center at Madison and Mayfield avenues.

News

Education committee OKs recommendations it hopes will improve Austin schools

By Sarah Ostman | August 29, 2011

CPS Chief Jean-Claude Brizard and other top officials will receive the report next month.

News

Sunday fundraiser will help retired policeman

By Vee L. Harrison | August 26, 2011

Former Sgt. Robert McGaha needs an elevator lift so he can get in and out of his home.

News

West Side faith leaders and parents join the call for longer school year

By AustinTalks | August 10, 2011

A press conference is planned for today to highlight need for children to spend more time in the classroom and less time on the streets.

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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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