Help Us Investigate And Explain This

Chicago_TIFs-Green_Map-smallIs it the Return of the Blob? Is a spreading epidemic? Is the map to secret treasure?
Could it be all three?

It’s the map of Chicago’s 163 Tax Increment Finance Districts. The property tax payers in the green zones had $454 million of their property taxes extracted by TIFs in 2011.

Are you in the Green Zone? How mich was extracted from YOUR ward?

Become a TIF Illuminator and find out. Email us at tom@civiclab.us.