Month: March 2009
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LEGISLATION: Chicago Sun-Times Editorial: City Council keeping info in TIF funds in black hole
Here’s an editorial in today’s Sun-Times.www.suntimes.com/news/commentary/1488786,CST-EDT-edit22b….March 22, 2009It was a modest proposal. Two aldermen, Manny Flores and Scott Waguespack, suggested shedding some light on the city’s TIF district deals by putting information on the Internet.TIF stands for tax increment financing, but as we have explained before, this is what they really are: Mayor Daley’s private…
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LEGISLATION: Statement before the Joint Committee on Finance and Committee Economic, Capital and Technology Development of the Chicago City Council
Here’s my testimony at City Hall today in favor of the “Sunshine TIF Ordinance” proposed by Alderman Scott Waguespack and Alderman Manny Flores: Statement re: Chicago Sunshine TIF Ordinance from Daniel X. O’Neil Here’s the ordinance itself: Tif Sunshine Final Ordinance from Daniel X. O’Neil