Civic Federation issues warning about Mayor Brandon Johnson’s $1B TIF surplus – Chicago Sun-Times

Chicago’s preeminent taxpayer watchdog group said the “complex and highly politicized” surplus process revised by the Johnson administration last year has allowed the creation of TIF districts to “act as a sort of stealth property tax” that bankrolls operating costs at the expense of economically challenged areas TIF districts were created to revitalize.

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