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Community

Job seekers invited to career conference

By AustinTalks | January 17, 2017

BUILD is hosting the event 10 a.m. Jan. 21 at 5100 W. Harrison St. Register online today.

Community

Free job assistance being offered in Austin

By AustinTalks | January 5, 2017

Weekly workshops will be offered on Wednesdays, starting Jan. 10th, at Greater St. John Bible Church.

Community

Dozens of non-skilled laborer jobs available

By AustinTalks | June 21, 2016

Interviews will be held June 22nd from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 29th Ward Ald. Chris Taliaferro’s office, 6272 W. North Ave.

Community

Job interviews set for Thursday on the West Side

By AustinTalks | May 9, 2016

Visit the Garfield Park Workforce Center, 10 S. Kedzie, today through Wednesday to talk to employers on May 12 at Homan Square Park, 3517 W. Arthington St.

Community

Hoops and jobs for West Side youth

By AustinTalks | March 16, 2016

Local elected officials will host a job readiness workshop, then play a basketball game with participants at the March 19 event held at Austin’s former YMCA, 501 N. Central Ave.

Community

Second chance resource fair Friday

By AustinTalks | October 1, 2015

Cook County Commissioner Richard Boykin is hosting the free event from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 2 at Another Chance Assembly Church, 5138 W. Division St.

Community

Updating your skills: Success for Nancy at Greater West Town

By Ellen Lindsey | September 18, 2015

The next round of job training classes start next month.

Community

More job seekers complete training on West Side

By AustinTalks | June 15, 2015

Since 2013, more than 70 have graduated from the program, run by Bethel New Life in partnership with World Business Chicago’s 1000 Jobs for Chicagoland and The Technology & Manufacturing Association.

Community

Career day big hit on Austin High School campus

By Erica Swinney | May 1, 2015

More than 100 professionals met April 30th with about 500 students from the three schools during the annual event.

Community

Open house for those interested in manufacturing jobs

By AustinTalks | September 11, 2014

The Austin Workforce Collaborative will host the event Sept. 15 from 5 to 9 p.m. at 231 N. Pine St.

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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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