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News

Santa Claus comes to Austin

By Ellyn Fortino | December 12, 2011

Kids 12 and under received stockings and gifts at Loretto Hospital’s 21st annual event.

Opinion

Let’s take back our streets

By James Deanes | November 18, 2011

James Deanes asks why young people are allowed to loiter and urges residents to take a stand against it.

News

Austin Head Start kids march against violence

By Sarah Ostman | April 16, 2011

Wearing T-shirts that said “Don’t shoot” and “I want to grow up, live, love, laugh,” dozens of young children took to the streets Thursday.

News

Former 37th Ward precinct captain wants to move up

By Margaret Smith | February 19, 2011

Steven E. Pleasant is one of five candidates challenging incumbent Emma Mitts, someone he used to support.

Community

Youth will be shooting hoops in January at Austin Town Hall

By AustinTalks | December 9, 2010

Youth 11 to 14 years old can register now for a new three-month community basketball program. Austin Safety Net Works is sponsoring the league as well as one for younger kids.

News

Local YMCA offers kids a free meal and place to go

By Lauren Bryant | July 28, 2010

The Kid’s Cafe program is offered year-round, and youth don’t have to be attending an Austin YMCA program to participate.

News

Summer food program available to Austin children

By Maya Ferdynus | July 26, 2010

Kids in need of breakfast and/or lunch can get a free meal through Sept. 3.

News

Making beautiful music on a hot Austin night

By Felicia Dechter | May 8, 2010

Three students on their way to college will receive music scholarships thanks to a recent fundraiser put on by the Chicago West Community Music Center.

News

  • 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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