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West Side state rep. race pits Democrat against Democrat

By Patrick Smith | November 1, 2012

While Lance Tyson is running as an independent under the 10th District Unity Party, he’s calling himself “the REAL Democrat” in the race against former state Rep. Derrick Smith.

Community

Join the Garfield Park garden tour Saturday

By AustinTalks | September 28, 2012

The 11 a.m. Sept. 29 event will start at the Garfield Park Conservatory and feature visits at eight community gardens.

News

West Side youth to discuss violence with police superintendent

By Patrick Smith | September 13, 2012

The scheduled Sept. 13 meeting with Garry McCarthy was arranged in response to essays the students wrote as part of Columbia College Chicago’s Columbia Links program.

News

West Side free public pools open

By Ellyn Fortino | June 19, 2012

The Chicago Park District locations have schedules – some changing daily – posted from June 25 to Aug. 5.

Community

Westside Musical Festival presents free summer concert series beginning next month in Austin

By AustinTalks | May 23, 2012

The three-part event, running from June to August at Columbus, Douglas and Garfield parks, will feature local acts, gospel choirs and artists Musiq Soulchild and Syleena Johnson.

News

The West Side joins Chicago’s cultural plan conversation

By Ellyn Fortino | March 19, 2012

The March 15 event at Austin Town Hall Park brought residents together to dicuss what improvements in arts and culture are needed in their communities.

News

Austin and Garfield Park team up for Little League

By Ellyn Fortino | February 13, 2012

The merger increases baseball diamonds from one to eight for Austin kids, and players will receive free tutoring, mentoring and ACT prep classes.

News

Inspiration under the L

By Jennifer T. Lacey | August 16, 2011

New restaurant opens in Garfield Park that helps the unemployed get back on their feet.

Community

Fundraiser held today for Juneteenth festival

By AustinTalks | July 22, 2011

Help retire the debt for this year’s festival and raise money for next year. If you can’t make it today, your help is still needed.

News

Juneteenth festival starts today

By Austin Weekly News | June 16, 2011

The six-day event runs through Tuesday at Garfield Park.

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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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