Lightfoot accounced that the city would realign “more than $750 million in public funding over the next three years” toward 10 neighborhoods on the city’s South and West sides as part of the INVEST South/West program.

That money will come from $250 million in existing pools: tax increment financing (TIF), the Small Business Improvement Fund (SBIF), and the Neighborhood Opportunity Fund; plus $500 million in already planned infrastructure improvements around transportation, housing and “quality of life enhancements.”

A republication of our Wirepoints article.

Comment: Very fishy. We will be taking a closer look.

The referenced report is by The Civic Federation and is linked here.

A network of area churches this summer banded together to take on the debt collection system that profits “on the backs of poor people”; to help restore bad credit marred by medical debt; and to inspire joy, said the organizers, the Rev. Otis