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Art student creates Sweet Homes Chicago design competition poster

By Ellyn Fortino | April 9, 2012

The Illinois Institute of Art junior’s creation depicts communities working together to address foreclosure for the program that focuses on Austin as a model for change.

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Design competition to combat Austin’s high foreclosure rate kicks off

By Ellyn Fortino | March 8, 2012

The Sweet Homes Chicago project is accepting applications through Aug.15 from designers interested in developing plans.

Community

Mortgage settlement brings praise and disapproval from West Side leaders

By AustinTalks | February 10, 2012

State Rep. Camille Lilly and South Austin Coalition’s Elce Redmond have different views, but both agree progress has been made and more work still needs to be done.

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Poverty Action Campaign penning Austin’s manifesto

By Ellyn Fortino | January 24, 2012

Members, who will meet tonight, encourage residents to get involved and support initiatives to improve the community.

Community

Occupy Our Homes launches effort to help homeowners facing foreclosure

By AustinTalks | January 14, 2012

Participants wanting to canvass on Chicago’s West Side are welcome both Sunday and Monday.

Community

Congressman Davis seeks hearing on abandoned properties

By AustinTalks | January 11, 2012

A recent federal report finds that taxpayers are paying for the surge in vacant properties.

Community

Local residents to clean up foreclosed home

By AustinTalks | December 6, 2011

The event begins at 11 a.m. Dec. 6 near May Elementary School.

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Occupy the Hood begins in Austin

By AustinTalks | October 29, 2011

In solidarity with Occupy Chicago, local residents will gather Saturday morning to protest how tenants are being treated after their building was foreclosed.

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Austin not included in city’s new foreclosure initiative

By Jennifer T. Lacey | September 30, 2011

Some say the right data isn’t being used, leaving the West Side out once again.

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Group works to fight foreclosures in Austin

By Michael Sandler | August 30, 2011

The Chicago Anti-Eviction Campaign meets every other Tuesday night in Austin. The next meeting is set for tonight.

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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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