TIF 101

In 2011 Chicago’s 163 TIFs extracted $454 million from city tax payers. In addition, the city received $879.6 million from property taxes. So the total amount of property taxes collected by the city...

Thanks to the great folks at Chicago Public Access, CAN-TV, watch this video of the three presenters plus the Q&A session (1 hour, 22 minutes). Tweet

Tom will be presenting at the 25th edition of PechaKucha Chicago at Martyr’s on March 5 at 8:00pm. What is PechaKucha? “PechaKucha 20×20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images,...

Over 220 people packed the Chopin Theatre on Tuesday night, February 12 to hear about Tax Increment Financing (TIFs) and to organize themselves to do something about them. The TIF Town Meeting was...

Here is the presentation Tom Tresser gave at the February 12 TIF Town Meeting on the 12 TIFs in the 27th Ward (audio = 23 minutes). The meeting was held at the fabulous...

Check out this 13 minute interview by Mike Stephen of Outside The Loop radio. We talk TIFs, the February 12 TIF Town Meeting and the work of the CivicLab. Tweet

Here is the presentation plus audio that reveals what we found out about the 12 TIFs inside the 27th Ward (1 hour, 25 min) CivicLab TIF Illumination Workshop – January 29, 2013 from...

We’re going to the first community town meeting on TIFs on February 12 at the Chopin Theater! Find out the details and RSVP on Facebook. Featured Speakers: Ben Joravsky – Award winning political...

As reported in Crain’s Chicago Business, “A new study examining where tax increment financing (TIF) proceeds go for construction in the Chicago Public Schools finds selective enrollment, charter and magnet schools are favored...

Is it the Return of the Blob? Is a spreading epidemic? Is the map to secret treasure? Could it be all three? It’s the map of Chicago’s 163 Tax Increment Finance Districts. The...