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Community, elected official say Key School should move to Douglass – not Ellington

By Reema Amin | April 22, 2013

In the last CPS-held meeting for Key school before the anticipated May 22 finalized school closing list, residents presented an alternative plan.

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Thousands block downtown streets during CTU protest

By Mario Lekovic | March 28, 2013

After the district released a finalized school closing list, protesters show up in large numbers to inform others of the “injustices.”

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Community members rally against closings

By Mario Lekovic | March 23, 2013

The CPS list released late Thursday confirmed four Austin schools are slated to be shuttered.

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DePriest supporters laud academic awards, teachers in efforts to remove school from CPS’ potential closure list

By Ellyn Fortino | March 1, 2013

DePriest has earned numerous academic awards and last year, a first-grade instructor received the Golden Apple Award honoring exceptional teaching (pictured).

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Nine Austin schools meet CPS criteria for shutdown

By Ellyn Fortino | November 22, 2011

While test scores for area schools have improved, some are still at risk.

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Austin: Weigh in on new school action guidelines

By Patrick Smith | November 15, 2011

Members of the public have until 5 p.m. Nov. 21 to express their opinions about CPS’ new criteria.

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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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