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TIFs Tue Aug 30 2011
Carole Brown on Chicago Tonight Talking TIFs
What jumped out at me was Brown saying that the public was mistaken in believing that tax increment financing districts were meant only to address blight. An area being blighted is actually in the TIF statute as among the necessary conditions for creation of a TIF. Hard to see how those statements can both be reconciled.
Dennis Fritz / September 6, 2011 8:55 PM
I think her comment about how investing downtown ultimately benefits the whole city says it all. Just more trickle-down rubbish. I don't expect much change.