Alerts Sign-up
Austin Chamber of Commerce
645 S Central Ave
Chicago, IL 60644-5059
Austin Chamber of Commerce News
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
A bill to raise Illinois' minimum wage to $15 by 2025 needs only Gov. J.B.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Two well-traveled Austin bus lines are getting more attention from the city.
-
When the municipal election rolls around every four years, the emphasis is always on the mayor and the aldermen.
-
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.
-
One speaker talked about his uncle, whose spiral into addiction led him to steal the family's Christmas presents – twice.
-
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.
-
The Chicago Board of Elections voted to keep state Rep. La Shawn K. Ford (8th) on the ballot, overruling objections against his nominating petitions.
-
Almost three years ago, Michele Zurakowski, the executive director of the Oak Park River Forest Food Pantry, realized that people with disabilities in the 13 ZIP codes served by her nonprofit — which include parts of Austin and other areas of the West Side — often cannot get to First United Church on Lake Street in Oak Park to pick up the groceries they need.
-
Winona Bryant and Therese Simmons share a 20-year friendship.
-
In order to run for alderman in Chicago, it's not enough to be a registered voter who lives in a ward and hasn't been convicted of a felony.
-
Two West Side aldermen are facing objections to their nominating petitions while one West Side alderman could once again run unopposed despite entering the race months earlier with a half-dozen challengers.
-
Bill Fletcher and Don Moss, two of Oak Park's newest residents, admittedly have a little bit of a problem.
-
Most of us are against gun violence, but why do so many of us who oppose gun violence support gun violence by giving money to criminals who then use the money to buy guns?
