TIF 101

                  That’s Woodstock School District 200 Board President Camille Goodwin sitting next to Woodstock Mayor Brian Sager sitting in the back row of the TIF...

The TIF Illumination Project takes to the road! We’ll be Illuminating TIFs in Woodstock, Illinois on October 20.   Tweet

What a night at Malcolm X College. About 300 people showed up for the first 2016 Budget Town Hall presided over by Mayor Emanuel and attended by all his department heads. Dozens of...

While we are still waiting for Chicago’s 2014 TIF reports, the mayor’s office has released its 2015 city budget analysis. They admit to $1.4 BILLION sitting in TIF accounts on January 1, 2015....

How would you like a TIF Illumination Project poster created by our czarina of design, Carlyn So? Or how about a hand-made DVD containing our two TIF training videos, “TIF 101” and “TIFs...

From July 23, 2015. Tom Tresser goes head to head with Greg Hinz from Crain’s Chicago Business. Tweet

Our second TIF training video is now available for your viewing pleasure! Thanks to the 46 donors who made this production possible! Tweet

Tom Tresser was on “Politics Tonight” on July 14, 2015 reacting to Mayor Emanuel’s announcement that seven Loop-area TIFs are to be shut down. Tweet

The CivicLab has closed but the TIF Illumination Project can continue! Please contribute to our crowdfunding campaign today. CLICK HERE to support The TIF Illumination Project Tweet

On April 30, 2015 at the annual conference of the Illinois Association of School Business Officials (IASBO) we Illuminated School District 300. D300 is Illinois’ 6th largest school district with 23,000 students. Located...