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IL Gives Out $1.5 Billion Annually To Corporations – We Are NOT Broke
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Tom Tresser
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Dec 2, 2012
A Times investigation has examined and tallied thousands of local incentives granted nationwide and has found that states, counties and cities are giving up more than $80 billion each year to companies. The...
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...
Hyatt Hotel TIF Protest
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Tom Tresser
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Nov 12, 2012
According to the Chicago Tribune, “Several hundred protesters marched along Michigan Avenue Monday morning to voice opposition to the school closings plan being put together by Chicago Public Schools. Organized by the Chicago...
Mariano’s Opens In Greektown – You Helped Pay For It
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Tom Tresser
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Oct 29, 2012
An upscale Mariano’s opens in Greektown on October 30, 2012. Chicago taxpayers – you helped pay for it! They got $7 million in property taxes from Chicago’s TIF Program. Bob Mariano was on...
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...
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...
$7 Million TIF Subsidy to Upscale Greektown Grocery
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Tom Tresser
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Jul 19, 2011
According to ChicagoRealEstateDaily.com, $7 million in public funds have been awarded to private developers to build an upscale grocery store in Greektown, across the street from the Dominick’s at 1 North Halsted Street....
Tax Breaks & Ethic Filings – Both Opaque
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Tom Tresser
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Jun 20, 2011
Today’s front page of The Chicago Tribune is a ringing endorsement for the concept of The TIF Report and its parent organization, The CivicLab. In the lead story on the $110 million tax...
44% Of All Illinois TIFs Are Breaking The Law
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Tom Tresser
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Jun 9, 2011
According to the web site of Illinois State Comptroller there are “approximately” (we can’t seem to get an exact count) 943 TIF districts in the state of Illinois in 2010. These TIF districts...
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