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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.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Food pantry delivers groceries and more
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.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Winona Bryant and Therese Simmons on friendship and community
Winona Bryant and Therese Simmons share a 20-year friendship.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Inside of a Petition Objection Hearing
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.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Incumbents, Challengers Scramble to Stay on Ballot
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.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Oak Park Arts District gets a bookstore
Bill Fletcher and Don Moss, two of Oak Park's newest residents, admittedly have a little bit of a problem.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: Connecting the dots
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?
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: From rapping to selling shoes: Success is in the details
Sabrian "Boo" Sledge, 38, the co-owner of Flee Club, a high-end resell shoe store at 121 S.
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AUSTIN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: West Side alderman, mayoral candidates face challengers
Challenges have been filed in all of the West Side aldermanic races.