TIF Reform

  From Cook County Clerk David Orr, June 19, 2014: Cook County property owners located in a tax increment financing district will now see how much of their tax bill is going into...

We’ve done dozens of town meetings or Illuminations. We’ve Illuminated 147 TIFs across 25 wards in front of over 2,000 people. Over 40 news stories have been written about our work. Now it’s...

Fed up with the Chicago TIF scam? You can fight back. Here’s what the folks in the 46th Ward are doing to roll back the promised gift of millions of public dollars for...

On the TIF ordinance – O2013-5698 – The YAY votes on a motion to Discharge the ordinance from the Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics were as follows: Alds. Moreno, Fioretti, Dowell, Hairston,...

From a press conference held outside the State of Illinois Building on August 2, 2013. The Chicago Teachers Union and the RAISE your Hand Coalition of concerned public school parents delivered a letter...

A new ordinance sponsored by 32 Aldermen was introduced on July 24 that seeks to declare a surplus of un-obligated TIF funds from all TIF districts that had 2012 revenues of over $1...

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...

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

Here’s my first set of suggestions for the new Chicago TIF Review Panel:     Ms. Brown, I have received your letter and would like to take you up on your offer of...

Carole Brown, a senior managing director at the financial services firm of Siebert Brandford Shank & Co, LLC, is the chair of a new TIF Reform Panel named by Mayor Emanuel. When I...