As long as Chicagoans don’t care about TIFs, let’s turn the city into a giant TIF district to pay our bills.
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Q&A: Cook County Board candidate Abdelnasser Rashid on taxes, surveillance, and campaign finance reform
Vying to flip one of four Republican seats, the 29-year-old would be the first Muslim in the county legislature.
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Chicago’s TIF scam might be even more crooked than we thought
The city’s TIFs will generate a record $561 million this tax year. Which means more money for the mayor to sneakily divert into vanity projects like Navy Pier.
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Mayor Rahm cuts school budget while the city’s TIFs are flush with money
Why cut $140 million from CPS when there’s $461 million in TIF money available?
Posted inNews & Politics
What’s really going on in the primary elections
Rahm Emanuel, Toni Preckwinkle, and other heavy hitters vie for influence in local primary elections
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My mixed luck with aldermen
Chicago aldermen have ranged from the corrupt and the racist to the gallant mavericks