Interview with the Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky on removing services for the poor as a gentrifying force; why TIF district creators exclude gentrifying areas; and getting beyond the fiction that TIF doesn't divert revenues from Chicagoland's taxing bodies. Length 10 minutes. • To see a map of the Near West TIF District click here
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Article: "Mayor Emanuel Does the TIF Reform Dance" (Chicago Reader)