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Check out holiday pop-up in Austin

By AustinTalks | December 8, 2023

Do some holiday shopping at the holiday market from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 9 at Urban Essentials Coffee Cae, 5300 W. Chicago Ave.

Community

Do you holiday shopping Friday at BUILD Chicago

By AustinTalks | December 6, 2023

Stop by the lobby of 5100 W. Harrison on Dec. 8 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Your purchases will be supporting local entrepreneurs, young moms, returning citizens and youth.

Austin

City to launch corridor ambassador program in Austin, 12 other shopping areas in Chicago

By AustinTalks | May 25, 2022

Starting in June, ambassadors will provide a friendly, welcoming presence on streets and provide residents with information about parking, dining and shopping. In Austin, the Westside Health Authority will run the ambassador program on Madison Street and Pulaski Road, and Chicago Avenue.

News

Austin residents could see two new grocery stores in next few years

By Francia Garcia Hernandez | February 15, 2022

EATS Groceries hopes to open a store on Madison Street, after years of exploring possible sites across the West Side. Meanwhile, Forty Acres Fresh Market continues to make progress on its building on Chicago Avenue.

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Soul City Community Market presents holiday bazaar this weekend in Austin

By AustinTalks | December 15, 2021

Stop by the Soul City Community Market’s holiday bazaar on Dec. 18 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 5713 W. Chicago Ave. Support Austin’s small businesses while listening to live entertainment. There will be prizes! Featured vendors include Tubby’s Taste, Just Unwind, Thank God 4 Raw Vegan Treats, Balm Yard, Ms. P’s Gluten Free and more. See you Saturday!

Community

Shop Saturday at community yard sale

By AustinTalks | July 24, 2019

The Chicago Police Department’s 15th District will be holding its second annual yard sale from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 27 in the district’s northwest lot at 5701 W. Madison St.

Opinion

Will the West Side be part of the “new Chicago?”

By Austin Weekly News | October 31, 2010

Rev. Marshall Hatch writes in this week’s Austin Weekly News that residents must get involved and demand much from Chicago’s next mayor.

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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