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Community

Share your thoughts on the future of Central Avenue

By AustinTalks | October 1, 2023

Austin Coming Together wants input from West Side residents and others who travel through Austin. The responses will be incorporated into an action plan as Central Avenue is re-envisioned.

africa

Don’t miss this Saturday’s Ghan-again festival

By AustinTalks | September 9, 2022

All are welcome at Saturday’s festival, which celebrates African heritage. Stop by Austin Town Hall from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 10 to see performers, take part in activities and show your support for young people and travel.

Austin

Austin travel agency featured in university competition

By Shelby E. Hawkins | February 9, 2021

Graduate students at the University of Illinois at Chicago came up with a road map for Austin-based Gone Again Travel to survive the pandemic. Founder and CEO Crystal Dyer is hopeful about the future of her 22-year-old business.

Community

Groove to West Side blues and soul on Saturday

By AustinTalks | November 7, 2019

Musician Larry Taylor will be performing at the event, which is a fundraiser for Austin youth to travel. Stop by 5940 W. Chicago Ave. from 12 to 6 p.m. Nov. 9th.

Austin Youth

Good Neighbor Campaign to take trip to Cape Town

By Mateusz Janik | October 25, 2019

Spots are still available for the one-week trip, which targets young people ages 16 to 24, their family members and anyone from the community. It will take place from April 4 to 11, 2020. The registration deadline is Oct. 31.

Transit

Austin bus riders will see expanded services, support from city

By AustinTalks | January 14, 2019

The Madison Avenue (#20) bus is one of eight city routes piloting new digital information screens, and the Chicago Avenue (#66) bus is part of the city’s transit development policy targeting certain parts of Chicago.

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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