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Growing Community Media is a nonprofit newsroom with five flags – digital and print – across neighborhoods and villages from the West Side to Proviso Township. If you value independent community journalism, the stories we tell, the connections we foster then join in with a donation to our WE CONNECT Spring campaign. It’s simple. Make a one-time donation – every dollar helps. Or sign on as a monthly donor at an amount that works for you. Online at GrowingCommunityMedia.org/donate (or use that QR code!) Or good old-fashioned mail using the envelope inserted into today’s paper. May 10, 2023 Also serving Gar eld Park austinweeklynews.com @AustinWeeklyChi @AustinWeeklyNews FREE @austinweeklynews ■ Rethinking Central Avenue No. Partners, city break ground for Aspire Center in former school Workforc development key focus of Invest South/West projec By FRANCIA GARCIA HERNANDEZ Staf Reporter Mayo Lori E. Lightfoot attended the last her administration signature program, Invest “So West Side, here we go again,” she said dnesd the new Aspire Center, 5500 W. Madison St., to the approximately people who attended the oundbreaking ceremony Among the attendees local community leaders, business leaders and elected officials (29 Ald. Jason Ervin (28 and Congressman Danny Davis (IL-07). “The $41 million Aspire enter is joint by many community leaders and advocates including oming ether, the Resource Co oration, West Side Health uthorrd, ing how ODD BANNOR See ASPIRE on pa Mayor’ farewell address at BUILD Chicago FRANCIA GARCIA HERNANDEZ REPORTS PAGE 8 Lightfoot makes exit in Austin You can get local news delivered right to your email in-box. Sign up for FREE at AustinWeeklyNews.com NEWSFLASH! Follow us online! rblandmark.com May 10, 2023 Also serving North Riverside R IVERSIDE-BROOKFIEL D $1.00 38, No BOB UPHUES/Editor Brook trustees om Jennifer endricks, ulie N imatsu, Nicole Gilhooley and atie Kaluzn ather in of photos the ill e’ all-male oster of ill iden on May 8. Riverside moves to acquire Harlem Avenue building Ownership of tax-delinquen commercial structure a bit murky By BOB UPHUES a tax-delinquent commercial building on Harlem gram after village trustees voted unanimously on The building in question is officially listed as prises ve storefronts, three of which are occuchic eadings with Sarah Whit According to the Cook County corder of Deeds, the owner of record corporation called Harlem Jam LLC, whose See NO-CASH BID. on page Riverside Public Library unveils new makerspace Brook elder charged in ‘altercation outside LTHS For rst time ever, women outnumber men on Riverside, Brook eld village boards STORY ON PAGE Fo rs me ever women outnumbermen

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