Council finance watchdog issues first public eyeball of coming city budget

Little-known Council Office of Financial Analysis comes unleashed.

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TIF AUDIOBOOK

Audiobook: Joravsky on tax-increment financing

This first-in-a-series audiobook features hours of Dave Glowacz's in-depth interviews with Ben Joravsky about TIF since 2014.

SCHOOLS

Illinois school funding for dummies

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FINANCE

Lightfoot administration defends Lincoln Yards TIF

Tacit, or tactical?

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• "Diversion thesis" muddies anti-TIF arguments
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