Posts tagged Austin
Forty Acres Fresh Market Continues to Take Strides in the Austin Neighborhood as they prepare for a first-of-it’s-kind opening next year

The Austin neighborhood has many claims to fame, but increasingly over time, access to healthy food has not been one of them. Many would consider parts of Austin to be a food desert (though the exact definition of this term is loose), along with a growing number of areas on the city's West Side.


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Film screening in Austin neighborhood discusses impact of systemic racism on 1995 Chicago heat wave deaths during first day of 2020 One Earth Film Festival

CHICAGO - During the summer of 1995, a heat wave caused 739 predominantly black, elderly and poor Chicagoans to die heat-related deaths during a five-day period, overwhelming communities, families and city staff tasked with dealing with the deadly crisis. 

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Mayoral candidate Lori Lightfoot takes center stage at West Side forum in rival Preckwinkle’s absence

Several hundred community members gathered at the Kehrein Center for the Arts, 5608 W. Washington Blvd., for the West Side Mayoral Forum last Thursday night to hear from runoff mayoral candidates Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle just five days before Election Day.

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