Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on front-end vs. back-end TIF district reforms, and more.
Tax-Increment Financing (TIF)
A tour of the McCormick arena development area
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on what it would take to move the landmark Rees House, and more.
Tracking TIF's tall tales
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on the actual amount of the city's TIF surplus, and more.
As schools starve, Mayor Emanuel finds $5 million for hot dogs
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on the intended investment payoff of tax-increment financing, and more.
Rahm's new TIF program looks a lot like the old TIF program
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on how the General Assembly's "ladies of the lake" resisted pork, and more.
Rahm's latest plan: close the schools, build an arena
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on how an almost-dead TIF district can rob from its younger neighbor, and more.
Proposed law would limit TIF take from schools
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on why the public should allow taxing bodies to increase their tax take each year, and more.
Taxation by obfuscation
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on what, exactly, CivicLab will reveal about tax-increment financing districts, and more.
United Generously Returns Taxpayer Subsidy It Was Required to Return Anyway
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on where United's return of taxpayer subsidy will go, and more.
Mayor Emanuel Makes a TIF Movie
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on what might've motivated the Emanuel administration to make the TIF video, and more.
Summits Come and Go, but the Mayor's Handouts Never End
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on whether the city still doesn't check on the jobs pledges of TIF-fund recipients, and more.
How Clout Raised an Uptown TIF Deal From the Dead
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on a list of "blighted" suburbs that have TIF districts, and more.
What to Tell an Alderman Who Fibs to You About TIF
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on the first step for true reform of the city's budget process, and more.
Wrigley Funding Scheme Is Another Cub Loser
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on a review of government subsidies to Chicago's major-league sports teams, and more.
Mayor Emanuel Does the TIF Reform Dance
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on removing services for the poor as a gentrifying force, and more.
Uptown Turns Down a TIF Deal—For the Moment
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on the difference between a tax-increment financing district's budget and the amount of tax dollars it diverts, and more.
TIF Gifts Just Keep on Giving
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on alternatives to tax-increment financing of well-endowed institutions, and more.
The Merc's Manual
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on tax-increment financing's cloak of invisibility, and more.
The Poor Pay Again
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on how TIF subsidies attract development investors, and more.
The Hot New Issue
Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on how Mike Quigley opened the floodgates to scrutiny of tax-increment financing, and more.