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Outgoing alderman named to mayor’s transition team

By AustinTalks | April 16, 2015

Ald. Deborah Graham, who lost her 29th Ward seat in the April 7th runoff, is one of about a dozen people serving on the special committee.

Opinion

New governor off to wrong start

By Valerie Leonard | November 6, 2014

West Side advocate Valerie Leonard questions the lack of diversity on Bruce Rauner’s transition team.

News

Time running out to support the Chicago Chargers youth football team

By AustinTalks | November 29, 2013

Saturday is the deadline to make a donation so players can compete in the national championships early next month in Florida.

Community

Final Explosion team in need of temporary practice space

By AustinTalks | February 6, 2013

The dance troupe’s founder is asking for someone to donate a large room for a few hours for two days leading up to a Feb. 23 performance.

Opinion

King James tells us glory is never the companion of the comfortable

By John W. Fountain III | July 3, 2012

Columnist John W. Fountain III writes about ignoring “haters” and those standing in the way of greatness.

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

Austin siblings solve business puzzle

By Bonni McKeown | August 1, 2011

The brother-sister duo, part of a five-member team, placed second in a national contest.

Community

New basketball leagues finishes its first season

By Jonathan Currie | June 6, 2011

Seventy players participated on six teams, organized by Austin Safety Net Works.

Community

Little League baseball coming to Austin

By AustinTalks | February 17, 2011

To sign up to play or to volunteer, contact the Westside Health Authority or Austin Safety Net Works.

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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