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Chicago’s overnight winter parking ban starts Thursday

By AustinTalks | November 30, 2022

The ban is enforced on 107 miles of main streets throughout the city from 3 to 7 p.m. through April 1. Violators will face more than $200 in fines and fees.

Chicago

Thursday is deadline for city sticker amnesty

By AustinTalks | October 29, 2019

Residents have until Oct. 31 to buy a city sticker for 2019 and pay no back charges or late fees. Starting Nov. 15, Chicago residents can apply to have some or all of their city sticker tickets forgiven; the deadline to apply for sticker ticket debt relief is Dec. 15.

News

City removing red-light cameras at one Austin intersection

By AustinTalks | March 11, 2015

Mayor Rahm Emanuel is scaling back the controversial system; challenger Jesus Chuy Garcia has vowed to get rid of all the cameras citywide.

News

Street cleaning begins today

By AustinTalks | April 1, 2014

Make sure you know the schedule for your area now that the city’s sweepers are out in full force.

News

Miss Black Austin Illinois to compete in preliminary pageant Saturday

By Andrea Watson | October 25, 2012

Shakari White will be representing the West Side at the 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 27 event at the Dusable Museum of African-American History. Tickets are still available.

Community

Winter overnight parking ban resumes Dec. 1

By AustinTalks | December 1, 2011

In Austin, it covers West Division and West Madison streets and Central Avenue.

News

Proposal aims to end jail time for some marijuana offenses

By Ashlee Rezin | November 9, 2011

Issuing tickets would allow police to focus more time on violent offenders and generate up to $7 million in revenue for the city.

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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