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West Side faith leaders push for investigation and compensation for flooding victims

By AustinTalks | July 11, 2023

Metropolitan Water Reclamation President Kari Steele, Illinois Senate President Don Harmon and 37th Ward Ald. Emma Mitts are expected to meet with members of the Leaders Network Tuesday at the faith group’s monthly meeting in Austin.

Ald. Chris Taliaferro

Ald. Taliaferro joins faith leaders in calling for firing of police officer linked to Proud Boys

By Francia Garcia Hernandez | January 11, 2023

“It is my opinion that Supt. Brown should fire this officer,” 29th Ward Ald. Chris Taliaferro told members of The Leaders Network this week.

Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez

West Side faith leaders call for firing of CPD officer over Proud Boys statements

By Francia Garcia Hernandez | December 15, 2022

The Leaders Network joined 25th Ward Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez in urging the officer be immediately removed.

Community

Faith leaders, elected officials challenge Chicagoans to find those responsible for Halloween mass shooting

By AustinTalks | November 2, 2022

“This is unacceptable,” Rev. Ira Acree of Greater St. John Bible Church said of Monday night’s shooting. “We are calling upon all Chicagoans to assist in getting the perpetrators of these crimes off the street.”

civil rights

Chicago civil rights leaders support lawsuit against NFL

By AustinTalks | February 13, 2022

The Leaders Network of Chicago is calling on NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to create an inclusive task force to address discrimination, days after former Miami Dolphins Coach Brian Flores sued the NFL and three of its 32 teams, alleging racist hiring practices.

Chicago 2022 budget

River Forest church gives $10,000 to credit union effort

By Jordyn Harrison | November 23, 2021

The Leaders Network received its largest donation toward its credit union fundraising campaign. So far, the group has raised $62,000 out of $150,000 that is needed to launch a credit union on the West Side.

Chicago budget

‘A budget is a moral document:’ Faith leaders discuss city budget, economic justice

By Jordyn Harrison | October 13, 2021

Members of the Leaders Network discussed what they would like to see in the city of Chicago’s 2022 budget, and they were briefly joined by Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx at their monthly meeting.

Community

West Side residents to take part in Lake Shore Drive shutdown

By AustinTalks | July 31, 2018

Buses will leave Greater St. John Church, 1256 N. Waller, at 2:30 p.m. Aug. 2. Groups from across the city – including Violence Interrupters, the Coalition for a New Chicago, and The Leaders Network – will be meeting at 4 p.m. at Belmont and Lake Shore Drive.

Alan Taylor

Building bridges between Chicago’s West Side and Oak Park

By AustinTalks | February 8, 2016

The senior minister of Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation urges residents living on both sides of Austin Boulevard to come together.

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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