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Home » DePaul basketball arena

Tag: DePaul basketball arena

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Chicago’s three-card monte

by Ben Joravsky February 12, 2020August 18, 2021

Mayor Lightfoot’s TIF “reform” does not tell you how much the scam costs.

Posted inBlogs

Lake Shore Drive marchers: Here’s the real lowdown on the city’s budget

by Ben Joravsky July 27, 2018August 18, 2021

According to Cook County clerk David Orr, in the last year alone $660 million in property taxes went into tax increment financing (TIF) districts.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Chicago’s TIF scam might be even more crooked than we thought

by Ben Joravsky July 25, 2017August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

The economic causes of Chicago’s violence

by Ben Joravsky January 3, 2017August 18, 2021

The city continues to pursue policies that advance inequity.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

What Trump could learn from Chicago’s kleptocracy

by Ben Joravsky December 21, 2016August 18, 2021

Politicians making a buck on their offices is nothing new here.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Emanuel’s violence-prevention speech proved talk is cheap

by Ben Joravsky September 28, 2016August 18, 2021

The money the mayor pledged to combat violence is nothing compared to the dollars he’s set aside for the DePaul/Marriott deal.

Posted inBlogs

Too little, too late from aldermen on Rahm’s DePaul deal

by Ben Joravsky January 18, 2016August 18, 2021

Two years too late, the City Council takes a tough stand on Mayor Rahm’s $55 million DePaul basketball arena/Marriott hotel.

Posted inBlogs

Alderman Joravsky considers voting for Mayor Rahm’s budget

by Ben Joravsky October 30, 2015August 18, 2021

If I were alderman, how would I have voted on the mayor’s budget?

Posted inNews & Politics

Who wins and loses in Rahm’s TIF game?

by Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke March 26, 2015August 18, 2021

Under Mayor Emanuel, most economic development funds are spent downtown while neighborhood investments lag behind.

Posted inBlogs

Correcting Crain’s on TIFs

by Ben Joravsky March 17, 2015August 18, 2021

If columnists keep pushing the mayor’s line on TIFs, that leaves Mayor Rahm free to keep using the $400 million-a-year program as his slush fund.

Posted inBlogs

Mayor Rahm stages an aldermanic press conference

by Ben Joravsky March 10, 2015August 18, 2021

When it comes to budgets, TIFs, taxes, and other financial matters, the last people we should turn to for advice are the mayor’s City Council rubber-stampers.

Posted inBlogs

Mell challenger in 33rd Ward blasts TIF program ‘patronage’

by Chloe Riley February 4, 2015August 18, 2021

High school teacher Tim Meegan says he has a chance to displace the Mell dynasty in the northwest side ward.

Posted inBlogs

Mayor Rahm and his rubber-stamp City Council’s hall of shame

by Ben Joravsky December 10, 2014August 18, 2021

Professor Dick Simpson’s analysis of the “rubber-stamp” City Council enables us to rank the five worst things the Mayor Rahm’s made the aldermen do.

Posted inBlogs

Alderman Ameya wants Mayor Rahm to bring back full service to the Lincoln Avenue bus

by Ben Joravsky November 21, 2014August 18, 2021

DePaul basketball arena v. the Lincoln Avenue bus: The mayor spends hundreds of millions on a project nobody wants while saving peanuts, if anything, on bus line that thousands of seniors need.

Posted inBlogs

Chicago’s voters deserve the Bears

by Ben Joravsky November 12, 2014August 18, 2021

Let’s face it, Chicago voters—when it comes to politics, you’re as wimpy as the Bears.

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