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- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Aug 8, 2019
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A modest proposal
As long as Chicagoans don’t care about TIFs, let’s turn the city into a giant TIF district to pay our bills.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jan 18, 2018
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If Mayor Rahm really wanted to stop poor people from leaving Chicago, he’d stop giving TIF handouts to corporations
Instead another TIF deal benefits a downtown building instead of neighborhoods in need.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 9, 2017
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John Oliver nails why Amazon’s HQ2 would be bad for Chicago
The Last Week Tonight host tells the world what Chicagoans have known for years: cities are wasting billions on corporate welfare in the name of "jobs, jobs, jobs."
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 3, 2015
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Just when you thought it was safe, here comes another debate over TIFs
Another day, another TIF dispute, but the fact remains: 48 percent of the money is going to just 5 percent of the city.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 5, 2015
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Fact-checking Rahm's fact check of last night's debate
Some claims by Fioretti, Garcia, and Wilson are questionable, and so are Mayor Emanuel's claims about them.
- News & Politics, Feature Jan 13, 2014
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The missing link in the War on Poverty
To better help the urban poor, government must address not just their deprivation but also their segregation.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 24, 2013
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If facts are taken into account, Rahm's budget claims don't all add up
Fact-checking Mayor Emanuel's budget speech
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 11, 2013
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City job policies are helping create two different and unequal Chicagos
A new report finds that thousands of jobs have disappeared from black and Latino areas as the city subsidizes the exodus.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 12, 2013
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New Walmart subsidized with millions of taxpayer dollars—and some residents are thrilled
The largest corporation in the world is hailed in a neighborhood desperate for jobs.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jul 23, 2013
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Why your tax money keeps going down the TIF portal hole
Mayor Emanuel would rather fire 1,000 teachers than give up his biggest slush fund.
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Nov 28, 2012
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Rahm's addition-by-subtraction approach to jobs
While touting Chicago employment growth, Mayor Emanuel outsources city positions
- Columns & Opinion, On Politics Jul 14, 2011
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Rahm Emanuel's report card so far: there's room for improvement
Grades on budget, economic development, personnel, police, and schools
- Blogs, Bleader May 20, 2010
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Where TIF Dollars Go and Where They Don't
Chicago's tax increment financing program money isn't reaching many of the neediest parts of the city. In fact, Chicago's economic disparities may even be widened by the program. Here are some images from neighborhoods that have benefited from the program—and from those that have missed out.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 29, 2010
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Is Walmart the Only Retailer Interested in Pullman? Maybe Not.
Alderman Anthony Beale has said that Walmart is the only retailer interested in opening a store on a 180-acre site on the far south side. But other retailers say no one asked them about it.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 7, 2009
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Jobs at what price? How about $14,356 apiece?
United Airlines is set to get a $35.4 million handout from the city. Is anything in place to make sure taxpayers are getting their money's worth?
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 5, 2009
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Buy High, Sell Low
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 4, 2009
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The Redevelopment-Via-Upscale-Golf-Course Plan
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 3, 2009
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Beer—but at what price?
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 30, 2009
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Green jobs, compliments of the feds
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 24, 2009
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The next big box war . . . and peace
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 10, 2009
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Black Ops in the Green Economy
The city is set to move forward with an exciting solar power project on the south side. So why won't it share information about it?
- Blogs, Bleader Jun 9, 2009
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Back to square one with the main post office
The city's plan to spend $51 million in TIF dollars fixing up the old downtown post office dies. And it might be the Reader's fault.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 29, 2009
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From brownfield to green?
Ambitious plans are afoot to recycle 600 acres of land at the former U.S. Steel mill site along the south lakefront. Here's a photo tour of what it looks like now.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 7, 2009
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What comes first, the green or the jobs?
Alderman John Pope, who works on the southeast side, the heart of old industrial Chicago, says he's interested in attracting green jobs. But not-quite-green jobs sound pretty good too.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 19, 2009
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The waste of waste
Officials and business leaders hatch plans for dealing with food waste that could help the environment and the economy.
