TIF News

  • TIF Project Highlighted at Planning Conference

    by - Mar 31, 2014
    http://issuu.com/cmrenner/docs/cnu-conference-final-20140325 – Free download of presentations and material from 2013 conference on new ways of doing urban development. We did a piece on the TIF Illumination Project. Also great stuff on how Rockford...
  • Protests Continue In The 46th Ward

    by - Mar 5, 2014
    $14 million in public subsidies for a luxury high-rise across the street from Lincoln Park?  Would an elected official support stripping public funds from public education and public parks to build a private...
  • Tom Explains The CivicLab & The TIF Illumination Project

    by - Feb 17, 2014
    Check out this great video shot by the folks at the Progressive Democrats of America. It’s 28 minutes long and lays out what the CivicLab is all about and how The TIF Illumination...
  • The TIF Illumination Project Is One Year Old!

    by - Feb 14, 2014
    We launched the TIF Illumination Project at the Chopin Theater one year ago! What a wild ride it’s been. Here is an account of the work we’ve done. Comments are welcome. Tweet
  • Fighting TIFs

    by - Feb 2, 2014
    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...
  • TIF Extreme Logic – Public $ For PRIVATE Park

    by - Jan 8, 2014
    Join the fight in the 46th Ward to stop JDL Development from getting $14 million in public dollars for a luxury high rise across the street from Lincoln Park. This development includes a...
  • The Perils Of Privatization

    by - Dec 19, 2013
    Historian and reporter for The Nation Rick Perlstein is doing a series of articles on the perils of privatization. In this 13 minute interview on WBEZ he lays out the reasons to be...
  • Rules Committee Votes – Council Members Punt (Again)

    by - Dec 1, 2013
    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,...
  • Winners & Losers In The TIF Game

    by - Nov 27, 2013
    From the Chicago Reader, “Those who got, get more. And those who don’t got, get the shaft. All in the name of eradicating blight. Beale was absent for Wednesday’s showdown—so he didn’t cast...
  • Sun-Times Illuminates TIFs

    by - Sep 29, 2013
    The TIF Illumination Project was a source for this story in today’s Chicago Sun-Times. Our research was used in the creation of the map that accompanies the story. Tweet