In an audio interview with Alderman Anthony Beale of Chicago's Ninth Ward, Dave Glowacz explored the Lightfoot administration's relationship with some of the more independent-thinking members of the City Council.

In a surprise move, the Illinois Commerce Commission halted a nearly three-year effort to help Illinois utilities pay for investments in cloud computing.

In an audio interview with a budget analyst from the Chicago City Council Office of Financial Analysis, Dave Glowacz dissects a report on Mayor Lori Lightfoot's 2020 Chicago budget.

In an interview by Ben Joravsky with Dave Glowacz on the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky Show, Dave and Ben discussed the Lightfoot administration's defense of tax-increment financing in general, and the Cortland/Chicago River TIF district in particular.

In an audio interview with freshman Alderman Daniel La Spata of Chicago's 1st Ward, Dave Glowacz explores how new City Council members get the training and orientation needed to do their jobs.

A report from the Chicago mayor's office details the ways in which city departments defer to "aldermanic prerogative".

In an interview by Ben Joravsky with Dave Glowacz on the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky Show, Dave describes his recent reporting on megadevelopments and Lincoln Yards.

Chicago's City Council will vote on locking in payments from property taxes to the developer of the proposed Lincoln Yards complex, plus an undetermined amount of fees to bankers, by way of the Cortland/Chicago River TIF district.

The city of Chicago says that the City Council's finance committee will consider the Cortland and Chicago River TIF district at its April 8 meeting.

The city of Chicago has finally released the documents that would, with a City Council OK, make the Lincoln Yards development a legal reality.

Complete audio: The Chicago City Council Committee on Zoning's approval of the planned-development ordinances for the Lincoln Yards complex.

Complete audio: The Community Development Commission's unanimous approval of the Cortland/Chicago River TIF district to finance the Lincoln Yards complex.

The city's Community Development Commission and Chicago Plan Commission will soon consider approval of the Cortland and Chicago River tax-increment financing district, surrounding Lincoln Yards.

Proposed city ordinances would turn plans for the Lincoln Yards development into law—but legally sidestep many of the details released to the public.

The city of Chicago released a massive report on traffic around the proposed Lincoln Yards development that contradicts details disclosed previously by the developer.

Ald. Brian Hopkins (2nd) has used Twitter to respond to residents' and journalists' perceived fast-tracking of approval by the Chicago Plan Commission.

A board of local officials gave the first governmental green light to the billion-dollar Cortland/Chicago River tax-increment financing district.

A Jan. 11 joint review board meeting will let taxing bodies say whether they'll permit the Cortland/Chicago River TIF district to divert property taxes for the privately-developed Lincoln Yards.

In an interview by Ben Joravsky with Dave Glowacz on WCPT-AM's Ben Joravsky Show, Ben explores Dave's recent reporting on the Cortland/Chicago River TIF district and the proposed Lincoln Yards real estate development, and more.

The city of Chicago expects that the equalized assessed valuation of properties in the proposed Cortland/Chicago River tax-increment financing district will total $2.5 billion.