TIF News

Check out this report on the Chicago Central Area Plan 2045 – a massive gift of public dollars via the TIF program to a handful of wealthy, clouted, (mostly) white developers! Tweet

Want to know how much public money Chicago’s TIFs removed in 2022? The only complete analysis is right here. Record high totals across the board! Purchase the data UNDER the report. Tweet

Join us in Pilsen on April 27, 2023 when we do “TIF 101” highlighting the TIFs of Pilsen. Our host will be El Pueblo Manda (The People Rule), There will be Spanish translation...

Tom Tresser was interviewd on “Outside the Loop” Radio on December 24, 2022. He breaks down Chicago’s out-of-control TIF program for 2021. He offers an ALTERNATIVE to using TIFs for economic development. Tweet

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Detroit People’s Platform has been collaborating with the CivicLab’s TIF Illumination Project for over two years and the results are outstanding! They are Illuminating the MANY TIFs of Detroit – for the first...

No one can give you this data. The City does NOT want you to have it. Only the CivicLab can tell you everything about Chicago’s out of control Tax Increment Financing Program. Click...

On Wednesday, September 23, 2021 the CivicLab presented at our 183rd public meeting. We Illuminated the TIFs of Evanston. 79 people registered and 46 attended – including two sitting Evanston city council members,...

Our 2019 TIF Illumination of all of Chicago’s TIFs for 2019 is now available! Thanks to the intrepid team at the City Bureau for assembling the raw data. Click here to request your...