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Academy of Scholastic Achievement awarded grant

By AustinTalks | November 12, 2011

The Austin non-profit, public alternative high school received $2,000 from Community Bank of Oak Park River Forest.

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Some Austin school test scores on the rise

By Ellyn Fortino | November 7, 2011

Five elementary schools received awards, but the high schools are still among the lowest performing in the area.

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West Side eighth-graders attend high school fair

By Ellyn Fortino | October 24, 2011

Representatives from more than 30 schools answered questions and showed students their many options.

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Students think some courses should be offered each year

By V.O.I.S.E. Academy | April 11, 2011

Journalist Brittany Douglas learns what her classmates want offered at V.O.I.S.E. Academy.

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Move Me Soul appears at the Chicago Theater

By Jennifer T. Lacey | March 30, 2011

The dance troupe comprised of students from the Austin high school campus as well as others from the West Side took part in the March 23 show. See what you missed.

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Austin dance students will compete in After School Matters event

By Jennifer T. Lacey | March 22, 2011

Move Me Soul, a 30-member troupe, hopes to repeat last year’s showing when it won a best campus award.

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Alternative high school graduation gives students hope

By Vee L. Harrison | March 15, 2011

Nearly 70 West Side residents earned their diploma from Austin Career Education Center earlier this year.

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Three high schools will continue on Austin campus

By Austin Weekly News | March 3, 2011

The 5-year-old Austin Business and Entrepreneurship Academy will transition from a contract school to one run by Chicago Public Schools at the end of this school year.

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Austin charter school to close in June

By AustinTalks | February 24, 2011

Students at Austin Business and Entrepreneurship Academy will be able to attend either of the other two schools located in the same building or go elsewhere within CPS.

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Advocates push for magnet school in Austin

By Jennifer T. Lacey | January 28, 2011

The Chicago Board of Education approved another magnet in University Village, causing some to question why the West Side isn’t being considered for such a school.

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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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