TIF

When new TIFs are proposed, opponents cry, "Show us the blight." Here's what the term means — by law.

Crews will likely start building the project — complete with 25 affordable housing apartments — in June.

Planners envision a four-story building with 53 classrooms, including three science labs, two art rooms.

Dowell said she will declare $3.6 million from TIF surplus to help ailing government agencies.

Pawar ID'd $16.5 million in TIF surplus in the 47th Ward, and urges other flush aldermen to do the same.

Ald. Ameya Pawar and challenger Rory Fiedler met Wednesday night at a 47th Ward candidate forum.

The project includes $25 million to rehabilitate the Jefferson Park Transit Center, officials said.

Neighborhood leaders say kids near Kells Park need a community center, especially on winter snow days.

At a 33rd Ward candidate forum, challengers said partronage and nepotism "needs to end."

The station renovation is part of the CTA's four-year overhaul of the Blue Line, officials said.

Hear more about the plans for Welles Park's new playground at a community meeting Thursday.

The CivicLab's TIF Illumination Project brings its ward-by-ward roadshow to the 33rd on Thursday.

The 11th Ward is guilty of corporate giveaways, a civic group says.

The seminar aims to explain the complicated world of tax increment financing.

Money from the Elston-Armstrong tax increment financing district is funding the project, officials said.