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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Emergency Meeting Held To Raise Opioid Awareness
On a Tuesday in April a few weeks back, at least 17 people experienced overdoses near the corner of Chicago and Homan avenues; four of them died.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10M grant up for grabs on West, South Sides
On April 16, the Pritzker Traubert Foundation announced a new grant competition designed to pour money into areas on the city's neglected West and/or South Sides.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: County Eases Path To Housing For People With Arrest Records
The Cook County Board of Commissioners recently approved a measure that makes it easier for people with arrest records to secure housing in the county.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: West Side high school to get IB program
Austin high school students will no longer have to leave the West Side to study in an International Baccalaureate program.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: 'MOMMA's Act' to lower U.S. maternal deaths
While maternal mortality rates decline across other developed nations, the maternal mortality rate in the United States continues to rise — despite outpacing all other countries on health care spending per person.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Local Governments Want In On Tax Revenue From Online Sales
A U.S. Supreme Court decision last year allows states to collect sales taxes from online retailers, even if they don't have a physical presence in the state.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Developers update proposed North Ave. Sears proposal
It was literally standing room only at Ald. Chris Taliaferro's (29th) March 20 community meeting on the redevelopment plans for the Chicago portion of the former North/Harlem Sears site.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Waiting List For Affordable Suburban Housing Opens Up
The Housing Authority of Cook County has opened a waiting list for project-based voucher units designed to provide affordable housing to disabled residents, Housing Authority officials recently announced.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Recalling AWN's talks With The Candidates Who Will Be Mayor
In January, Austin Weekly News interviewed Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle— one of the last mayoral interviews this paper conducted in collaboration with City Bureau, the South Side-based journalism lab.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Austin nonprofit hopes to win national grant
An Austin group that has helped young mothers for more than 35 years is one of 15 finalists for The Renewal Awards, a $20,000 grant from The Atlantic magazine and Allstate that will be awarded to five organizations to celebrate innovative nonprofits across the nation.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Mayoral candidates talk West Side investment at forum
At a mayoral candidate forum hosted last weekend by the Chicago Westside Branch of the NAACP, candidate Lori Lightfoot's opening statements foreshadowed the afternoon's conversation.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: State House Passes Minimum Wage Bill
A bill to raise Illinois' minimum wage to $15 by 2025 needs only Gov. J.B.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: State Senate votes for $15 minimum wage
A bill to raise Illinois' minimum wage passed the state Senate on partisan lines on Feb. 7 after Gov. J.B. Pritzker made a personal appeal to Democratic lawmakers at a private caucus prior to the vote.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Willie D. Freeman, Prominent West Side singer dies at 75
Local West Side blues and soul singer Willie D. Freeman, 75, of Austin, died on Feb. 7, after a long illness, according to his wife, Gladys.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Austin CTA Bus Riders To See More Services
Two well-traveled Austin bus lines are getting more attention from the city.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Write in Walls for city clerk
When the municipal election rolls around every four years, the emphasis is always on the mayor and the aldermen.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: West Siders More Likely To Be Ticketed, Investigation Finds
Ten of Chicago's 77 community areas – Austin being one of them – have duplicate ticket rates that are more than 4.5 times the median for the city, according to a recent investigation by ProPublica Illinois and WBEZ/Chicago Public Radio.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Heroin, Opioid abuse hitting West Side Hard
One speaker talked about his uncle, whose spiral into addiction led him to steal the family's Christmas presents – twice.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Austin School Gets Funding for Performing Arts Center
The Chicago City Council recently approved a grant to help pay for an Austin performing arts center as part of the Neighborhood Opportunity Fund program.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Ford makes ballot
The Chicago Board of Elections voted to keep state Rep. La Shawn K. Ford (8th) on the ballot, overruling objections against his nominating petitions.