Column: Unwelcome news: The unfairness in Chicago’s TIF program continues. – Chicago Reader

Ben Jarovsky: "(I)t’s a monumentally important program—a lifeline, you might say— because it’s the largest pool of discretionary income the city has to even out inequities by fairly funding development in communities that desperately need it. And yet the program perpetuates the inequity it’s supposed to erase."
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True believer
5 years ago

Sophia King has taken thousands in campaign contributions from a developer farpoint development who wants TIF money in her ward at the Michael Reese site. All the phonies in Loris administration and her criminal no ethics inspector general Ferguson have been notified and nothing has been done. Ferguson has refused to investigate.

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