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Help Us Investigate And Explain This
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Tom Tresser
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Dec 16, 2012
Is 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...
Chicago Reader Wishes Us Well!
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Tom Tresser
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Dec 13, 2012
The great Ben Joravsky, who has forgotten more about TIFs than most will recall, has written about the CivicLab and our TIF Illumination Project. He keeps talking about Tom Tresser, but the No...
Shared Research – Pitch In!
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Tom Tresser
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Dec 8, 2012
There are 1,220 TIFs in Illinois inside of 455 municipalities. In 2010 they extracted $1.12 BILLION in property taxes from taxpayers across the state. What do we know, collectively, about all this economic...
Roundy’s Hits TIF Jackpot
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Tom Tresser
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Dec 8, 2012
According to The Center Square Journal, it’s full speed ahead for a development project on Lawrence Avenue that will house a Mariano’s Fresh Market to receive $4.5 million in our property taxes. The...
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...
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...
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...
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