Aldermen just raised property taxes to pay for Rahm’s TIF handout to his pals.
Tag: TIF
Posted inColumns & Opinion
A new deal
Lori Lightfoot can negotiate a better agreement at Lincoln Yards and 78.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
How Rahm plans to spend the $1.3 billion in TIF tax dollars he’s giving to Lincoln Yards
Hint: it doesn’t involve helping low-income communities.
Posted inMusic
Why won’t City Hall fight for Chicago’s homegrown music scene?
The Chicago Independent Venue League shouldn’t have to push back against the Live Nation handouts in the Lincoln Yards development—but City Hall doesn’t protect Chicago’s homegrown music scene.
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Mayor Rahm’s great TIF bamboozle
The Joint Review Board creates the illusion of oversight.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Looking out for number Rahm
The mayor’s latest proposal would cut benefits to municipal employees to fund development projects.
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Celebrating Acero’s successful teachers’ strike—and the belated victory for Karen Lewis
Chicago’s City Council hates taking from the schools and giving to the rich but sometimes they do it anyway.
Posted inBlogs
Looks like Karen Lewis may have defeated Rahm after all
As I watched jubilant teachers, wearing union red, from the Acero charter school network celebrate the new contract they’d won after a four-day strike, I had a flashback to the way things used to be. The Chicago Teachers Unions were in the midst of their 2012 strike, which had shuttered all the public schools in […]
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The Lincoln Yards TIF will benefit development firm Sterling Bay—but cost Chicagoans
Rahm’s pet development project will mean higher property taxes and less money for schools.
Posted inBlogs
It’s that thankful time of year
For the most of the year I rant and rail about the really bad ideas and behavior of our elected officials—and, trust me, I’ll get to Mayor Rahm’s $800 million or so Lincoln Yard TIF handout, in a subsequent column real soon. But with Thanksgiving just around the corner I figured I’d keep up with […]
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Father Pfleger, top cop Johnson, and a tinge of hope for the city’s future
Police superintendent Eddie Johnson and Father Michael Pfleger teaming up, as they did walking arm in arm down the Dan Ryan last week, could help us fight the city’s inequities.
Posted inBlogs
The pattern to Rahm’s sexual predator, filthy schools, and special ed scandals
If anything points to the need for an elected CPS school board that’s independent of the mayor, this is it.
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City Council should investigate Rahm, not Lori Lightfoot
There are a lot more questions we need answers to about Mayor Rahm than about his former police board chair.
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Special education kids fight for scraps as city touts shiny new developments
Who wants to bet there will be plenty of public money for soccer stadiums and upscale communities, but not enough for the students?
Posted inArts & Culture
Redlined tells story of one of the last white families in West Garfield Park
Linda Gartz’s memoir also offers some insight into the blindness of neighborhood residents to racial discrimination and disinvestment.