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TIF Take = 34% Of All Property Tax Revenues!
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Tom Tresser
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Nov 28, 2012
Here is the real break down of where our property taxes are going: TIFs are collecting and keeping 34% of the property taxes collected by the City of Chicago! ...
We Feel You, Joplin School District
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Tom Tresser
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Nov 21, 2012
From The Joplin Globe comes news of the fall-out when new TIF districts are created. Local public schools loose. Increasingly, school district administrators are pushing back. No wonder the Chicago Teachers Union, parents...
How Hot Was Your Ward In 2011 – TIF-Wise?
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Tom Tresser
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Nov 20, 2012
Check out this heat map ginned up by one of CivicLab’s fearless volunteer civic coders. It shows how much revenue was extracted from Chicago’s 50 wards in 2011. The grand total was $454...
Developer Rejects TIFs!
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Tom Tresser
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Oct 25, 2012
Missouri real estate developer Fred DeMarco published an op-ed piece in the Columbia Daily Tribune entitled “TIFs are a growth industry” where he rejects the notion of being subsidized by the public to...
Chicago TIFs Took $454 Million in 2011
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Tom Tresser
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Jul 25, 2012
According to Cook County Clerk David Orr Chicago’s 163 TIF districts grabbed $454 million in 2011. This is down from the $510 million TIF districts grabbed in 2010. County-wide there are a total of...
Preserve Public Services, Sunset Chicago’s TIFs
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Tom Tresser
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Sep 19, 2011
The annual reports f0r Chicago Tax increment Finance Districts are out.In order to find out how much they cost the taxpayers, one would have download all the PDF reports, open them up one...
Coke Gets TIF, Austin Residents Get Stiffed
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Tom Tresser
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Jul 19, 2011
According to an excellent article in Austin Talks, Coca-Cola got $3.22 million to build a distribution facility in Austin and only 20 of the facility’s 325 employees are from Austin. Austin activist Dwayne...
Tell City What You Think About TIFs
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Tom Tresser
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Jun 28, 2011
Tell the Chicago TIF Task Force what you think about TIFs at a new online forum set up at http://bit.ly/iZuhP1. Tom’s replies are the first in all forums except #3. Tweet
Tom to Teach “Intro to Community Organizing” @ Learnapalooza
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Tom Tresser
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Jun 15, 2011
Learnapalooza is a free learning extravaganza where over 100 classes and workshops will be offered in the Wicker Park area on Saturday, June 25. I’ll be offering two 45 minute sessions… Chicago is...
Guess Who Paid No Taxes?
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Tom Tresser
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Jun 9, 2011
Citizens for Tax Justice has released a preview of its forthcoming major study of Fortune 500 companies and the taxes they paid — or failed to pay — over the 2008-10 period. The...
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