1) Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts divert property tax revenue from various taxing bodies into special funds. This document examines the impact of TIF districts in Chicago's 27th Ward.
2) Between 2003-2011, the 12 TIF districts in the 27th Ward collected $255 million in property taxes but had $62 million remaining in accounts by 2011.
3) The money collected has been spent on both private development projects (46% of funds) and public projects (42%), but questions remain about how funds are allocated and whether this is the best use of tax dollars.
Housing and the Economy: Impacts and Forecasts - presented by Dr. Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, Director - Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL), University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs
The TIF Illumination Project - http://www.tifreports.com - visited the 50th Ward on June 11, 2013.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
Tom Tresser of the TIF Illumination Project (www.tifreports.com) gave this "TIF 101" presentation at a community meeting hosted by El Pueblo Manda (www.tinyurl.com/EPM-Facebook) on April 27, 2023. The focus was on Pilsen and we had Spanish translation. More info: info@civiclab.us
This presentation was done at the Peoples Church in Uptown on April 11, 2013.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
It was a two-for-one special on April 6, 2013 at Chicago State University when The CivicLab's TIF Illumination Project exposed the 14 TIFs in the 8th and 9th wards to light. Thanks to the South Area Civic League for pulling this forum together! If you would like YOUR ward Illuminated, please email us at tom@civiclab.us. The presentation was somewhat updated on September 4, 2014.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
This is the presentation given at the March 16, 2013 TIF Town Meeting in Washington Park by Tom Tresser, Lead Organize of the TIF Illumination Project (http://www.tifreports.com) a work of the CivicLab (http://www.civiclab.us). Radio host, Washington Park resident and former Alderman of the 20th Ward, Cliff Kelley was the moderator.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
Housing and the Economy: Impacts and Forecasts - presented by Dr. Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, Director - Regional Economics Applications Laboratory (REAL), University of Illinois Institute of Government and Public Affairs
The TIF Illumination Project - http://www.tifreports.com - visited the 50th Ward on June 11, 2013.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
Tom Tresser of the TIF Illumination Project (www.tifreports.com) gave this "TIF 101" presentation at a community meeting hosted by El Pueblo Manda (www.tinyurl.com/EPM-Facebook) on April 27, 2023. The focus was on Pilsen and we had Spanish translation. More info: info@civiclab.us
This presentation was done at the Peoples Church in Uptown on April 11, 2013.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
It was a two-for-one special on April 6, 2013 at Chicago State University when The CivicLab's TIF Illumination Project exposed the 14 TIFs in the 8th and 9th wards to light. Thanks to the South Area Civic League for pulling this forum together! If you would like YOUR ward Illuminated, please email us at tom@civiclab.us. The presentation was somewhat updated on September 4, 2014.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
This is the presentation given at the March 16, 2013 TIF Town Meeting in Washington Park by Tom Tresser, Lead Organize of the TIF Illumination Project (http://www.tifreports.com) a work of the CivicLab (http://www.civiclab.us). Radio host, Washington Park resident and former Alderman of the 20th Ward, Cliff Kelley was the moderator.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
This presentation by The TIF Illumination Project - http://www.tifreports.com - on the 16 TIFs inside the 11th and 12th wards was made on June 5, 2013.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
Tom Tresser of the CivicLab Chicago (www.civiclab.us) gave this presentation at a rally around public education and TIFs in Cincinnati on December 8, 2019. tom@civiclab.us
The TIF Illumination Project was in South Shore on March 30, 2013 to Illuminate the five active TIFs in the 7th Ward.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
Over 100 people attended the TIF Illumination for the 49th Ward on July 1, 2013. Tom Tresser of the TIF Illumination Project was the presenter.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
I upload all my TIF presentations to http://www.slideshare.net/tomtee. These presentations have been viewed over 44,000 times! The champ is the presentation on the 27th ward which has been viewed 4,292 times. So - if you are one of the people whose viewed these presentations and found them valuable - PLEASE support our work by (1) signing our email list at http://tinyurl.com/SignUp-CivicLab, (2) consider renting a desk with us (we're in Chicago's West Loop), and (3) making a deducible contribution via our fiscal agent, the Investigative News Network - http://tinyurl.com/SupportTheLab-INN. We are online at http://www.tifreports.com. Contact me - tom@civiclab.us.
This presentation on the 11 TIFs inside the 4th Ward was done on May 29, 2014.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
This was the 45th TIF Illumination from the TIF Illumination Project (http://www.tifreports.com). We lit up the seven TIFs of the 24th ward on November 11, 2015. We were at St. Agatha's Church in Lawndale. The presenter was Tom Tresser. We do training, workshops and presentations on TIFs and local economic development. Contact us at info@civiclab.us.
The full deck of slides is available for $5.00 at The TIF Data Store at http://www.tifreports.com/store.
Tom Tresser gave this presentation to the leaders of Latinos Progresando on August 7, 2013.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
The 33rd Ward was Illuminated on August 8, 2013 at a community meeting organized by The Albany Park Neighborhood Council - http://apncorganizing.org. Over 120 people packed the meeting room at the Christ Lutheran Church on West Wilson Avenue. Aldermen Mell and Colon were there and they pledged to work to return the FULL TIF funds to the schools and other units of government that have been deprived of funds because of the TIFs.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
Tom Tresser of the CivicLab delivered this presentation on TIFs to the City Bureau's Public Newsroom at Build Coffee in Hyde Park on July 6, 2017. www.tifreports.com - www.civiclab.us - www.wearenotbroke.org - Contact us at info@civiclab.us. This was our 50th public TIF meeting since 2013! The simple URL for this presentation = http://tinyurl.com/TIF-101-7-6-17.
To listen to the audio of this presentation = http://tinyurl.com/TIF-101-audio.
Tom Tresser brought the TIF Illumination Project - http://www.tifreports.com - to the 19th Ward on August 6, 2013.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
The short link for this page = http://tinyurl.com/27thWardForumPresentation.
Tom Tresser presented the research from the TIF Illumination Project's investigation of the 12 TIFs in the 27th Ward. This presentation was made at the February 12, 2013 TIF Town Meeting organized by the Tax Integrity and Fairness Alliance at the Chopin Theatre. http://tifalliance.weebly.com.
We upload all the TIF presentations to http://www.slideshare.net/tomtee. These presentations have been viewed over 44,000 times! The champ is the presentation on the 27th ward which has been viewed 4,292 times. So - if you are one of the people whose viewed these presentations and found them valuable - PLEASE support our work by (1) signing our email list at http://tinyurl.com/SignUp-CivicLab, (2) consider renting a desk with us (we're in Chicago's West Loop), and (3) making a deducible contribution via our fiscal agent, the Investigative News Network - http://tinyurl.com/SupportTheLab-INN. We are online at http://www.tifreports.com. Contact me - tom@civiclab.us.
Tom Tresser presented the research from the TIF Illumination Project's investigation of the 4 TIFs in the 6th Ward. This presentation was made at the Englewood TIF Town Meeting on March 9, 2013 organized by Resident Matters.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
Tom Tresser of the TIF Illumination Project (www.tifreports.com) gave this presentation on the TIFs of the 1st, 2nd, and 32nd wards on September 10, 2019. The host was the Wicker Park Committee. Bring us to YOUR community. info@civiclab.us
Strategic Planning Process - Stockyard, Clark-Fulton, Brooklyn Centre Communi...Tom Romito, Facilitator
Visit http://www.tomromito.com
Strategic Planning Process - Stockyard, Clark-Fulton, Brooklyn Centre Community Development Office 2014
Engagement process led by Jeffrey Ramsey, Program Director, SCFBC CDO, Gloria Ferris, President, Community Advisory Council, CDO Staff, and members of the Community Advisory Council, with Tom Romito, Facilitator. At Archwood United Church of Christ, 2800 Archwood Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44109
Visit the Brooklyn Centre Strategic Planning Process Flickr Collection at flickr.com/photos/127298038@N03/collections/72157648635055207/
This presentation was given on July 18, 2013 at Haas Park by Tom Tresser from the TIF Illumination Project - http://www.tifreports.com, a work of the Civiclab - http://www.civiclab.us.
You can get this full presentation online at the TIF Data Store at http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The full presentation contains this data:
- how many TIFs in the ward
- estimation of TIF property tax extraction from TIFs in the ward for latest year
- if a TIF is 100% or close to 100% in ward, lifetime property tax extraction
- how much money left in those TIF accounts FROM the ward
- what projects funded by TIFs in the ward
- examples from the TIF Hall of Shame
If this information is valuable to you, please sign up for our mailing list at http://tinyurl.com/SignUp-CivicLab. If you are in Chicago and need a place to work - consider co-working at the Lab!
Please support the work of the CivicLab by making a deductible contribution via our fiscal agent, the Investigative News Network, at http://tinyurl.com/SupportTheLab-INN. Find out more - info@civiclab.us.
Tom Tresser gave this presentation for the North Beverly Civic Association on November 3, 2015. If you would like YOUR community Illuminated, please contact us at tom@civiclan.us. For the FULL slide deck, please visit our TIF Data Store at http://www.tifreports.com/store. We rely on contributions from people like you to keep this work alive.
This is my basic introduction to Tax Increment Financing presentation done for the National TIF Illumination Research Project collaboration between "In These Times" and the TIF Illumination Project.
We can Illuminate the TIFs in YOUR community. We've done 47 public meetings over the past three years. Tom Tresser - tom@civiclab.us
Read the book that grew out of this work: "Chicago Is Not Broke. Funding the City We Deserve" at http://www.wearenotbroke.org.
Letter to California League of Cities regarding opposition to suspending Senate Bill 375 - a smart growth, transit-oriented planning bill in California.
i c stars KC Cycle 2 "Civics 101" - Session 3Tom Tresser
This is Session 3 of "Civics 101" for Kansas City i c stars Cycle 2, delivered May 31, 2024. The instructor is Tom Tresser. Subscribe to Tom's "CivicNotes" email newsletter at http://tresser.substack.com.
i c stars KC Cycle 2 "Civics 101" - Session 2Tom Tresser
This is Session 2 of "Civics 101" for i c stars Kansas City Cycle 2, delivered May 24, 2024. The instructor is Tom Tresser, tom@tresser.com, www.tresser.com.
This presentation by The TIF Illumination Project - http://www.tifreports.com - on the 16 TIFs inside the 11th and 12th wards was made on June 5, 2013.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
Tom Tresser of the CivicLab Chicago (www.civiclab.us) gave this presentation at a rally around public education and TIFs in Cincinnati on December 8, 2019. tom@civiclab.us
The TIF Illumination Project was in South Shore on March 30, 2013 to Illuminate the five active TIFs in the 7th Ward.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
Over 100 people attended the TIF Illumination for the 49th Ward on July 1, 2013. Tom Tresser of the TIF Illumination Project was the presenter.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
I upload all my TIF presentations to http://www.slideshare.net/tomtee. These presentations have been viewed over 44,000 times! The champ is the presentation on the 27th ward which has been viewed 4,292 times. So - if you are one of the people whose viewed these presentations and found them valuable - PLEASE support our work by (1) signing our email list at http://tinyurl.com/SignUp-CivicLab, (2) consider renting a desk with us (we're in Chicago's West Loop), and (3) making a deducible contribution via our fiscal agent, the Investigative News Network - http://tinyurl.com/SupportTheLab-INN. We are online at http://www.tifreports.com. Contact me - tom@civiclab.us.
This presentation on the 11 TIFs inside the 4th Ward was done on May 29, 2014.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
This was the 45th TIF Illumination from the TIF Illumination Project (http://www.tifreports.com). We lit up the seven TIFs of the 24th ward on November 11, 2015. We were at St. Agatha's Church in Lawndale. The presenter was Tom Tresser. We do training, workshops and presentations on TIFs and local economic development. Contact us at info@civiclab.us.
The full deck of slides is available for $5.00 at The TIF Data Store at http://www.tifreports.com/store.
Tom Tresser gave this presentation to the leaders of Latinos Progresando on August 7, 2013.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
The 33rd Ward was Illuminated on August 8, 2013 at a community meeting organized by The Albany Park Neighborhood Council - http://apncorganizing.org. Over 120 people packed the meeting room at the Christ Lutheran Church on West Wilson Avenue. Aldermen Mell and Colon were there and they pledged to work to return the FULL TIF funds to the schools and other units of government that have been deprived of funds because of the TIFs.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
Tom Tresser of the CivicLab delivered this presentation on TIFs to the City Bureau's Public Newsroom at Build Coffee in Hyde Park on July 6, 2017. www.tifreports.com - www.civiclab.us - www.wearenotbroke.org - Contact us at info@civiclab.us. This was our 50th public TIF meeting since 2013! The simple URL for this presentation = http://tinyurl.com/TIF-101-7-6-17.
To listen to the audio of this presentation = http://tinyurl.com/TIF-101-audio.
Tom Tresser brought the TIF Illumination Project - http://www.tifreports.com - to the 19th Ward on August 6, 2013.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
The short link for this page = http://tinyurl.com/27thWardForumPresentation.
Tom Tresser presented the research from the TIF Illumination Project's investigation of the 12 TIFs in the 27th Ward. This presentation was made at the February 12, 2013 TIF Town Meeting organized by the Tax Integrity and Fairness Alliance at the Chopin Theatre. http://tifalliance.weebly.com.
We upload all the TIF presentations to http://www.slideshare.net/tomtee. These presentations have been viewed over 44,000 times! The champ is the presentation on the 27th ward which has been viewed 4,292 times. So - if you are one of the people whose viewed these presentations and found them valuable - PLEASE support our work by (1) signing our email list at http://tinyurl.com/SignUp-CivicLab, (2) consider renting a desk with us (we're in Chicago's West Loop), and (3) making a deducible contribution via our fiscal agent, the Investigative News Network - http://tinyurl.com/SupportTheLab-INN. We are online at http://www.tifreports.com. Contact me - tom@civiclab.us.
Tom Tresser presented the research from the TIF Illumination Project's investigation of the 4 TIFs in the 6th Ward. This presentation was made at the Englewood TIF Town Meeting on March 9, 2013 organized by Resident Matters.
If you would like your own copy of this presentation that shows all the data from this ward as well as examples from the TIF Hall of Shame, please visit The TIF Data Store @ http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The TIF Illumination Project is 100% volunteer driven but we have serious monthly expenses to operate the CivicLab, our home, plus we’d like to build an online platform to make this information easy to access. Thanks!
Contact = info@civiclab.us
www.civiclab.us
www.tifreports.com
Tom Tresser of the TIF Illumination Project (www.tifreports.com) gave this presentation on the TIFs of the 1st, 2nd, and 32nd wards on September 10, 2019. The host was the Wicker Park Committee. Bring us to YOUR community. info@civiclab.us
Strategic Planning Process - Stockyard, Clark-Fulton, Brooklyn Centre Communi...Tom Romito, Facilitator
Visit http://www.tomromito.com
Strategic Planning Process - Stockyard, Clark-Fulton, Brooklyn Centre Community Development Office 2014
Engagement process led by Jeffrey Ramsey, Program Director, SCFBC CDO, Gloria Ferris, President, Community Advisory Council, CDO Staff, and members of the Community Advisory Council, with Tom Romito, Facilitator. At Archwood United Church of Christ, 2800 Archwood Ave., Cleveland, Ohio 44109
Visit the Brooklyn Centre Strategic Planning Process Flickr Collection at flickr.com/photos/127298038@N03/collections/72157648635055207/
This presentation was given on July 18, 2013 at Haas Park by Tom Tresser from the TIF Illumination Project - http://www.tifreports.com, a work of the Civiclab - http://www.civiclab.us.
You can get this full presentation online at the TIF Data Store at http://tinyurl.com/TIF-Data-Store. The full presentation contains this data:
- how many TIFs in the ward
- estimation of TIF property tax extraction from TIFs in the ward for latest year
- if a TIF is 100% or close to 100% in ward, lifetime property tax extraction
- how much money left in those TIF accounts FROM the ward
- what projects funded by TIFs in the ward
- examples from the TIF Hall of Shame
If this information is valuable to you, please sign up for our mailing list at http://tinyurl.com/SignUp-CivicLab. If you are in Chicago and need a place to work - consider co-working at the Lab!
Please support the work of the CivicLab by making a deductible contribution via our fiscal agent, the Investigative News Network, at http://tinyurl.com/SupportTheLab-INN. Find out more - info@civiclab.us.
Tom Tresser gave this presentation for the North Beverly Civic Association on November 3, 2015. If you would like YOUR community Illuminated, please contact us at tom@civiclan.us. For the FULL slide deck, please visit our TIF Data Store at http://www.tifreports.com/store. We rely on contributions from people like you to keep this work alive.
This is my basic introduction to Tax Increment Financing presentation done for the National TIF Illumination Research Project collaboration between "In These Times" and the TIF Illumination Project.
We can Illuminate the TIFs in YOUR community. We've done 47 public meetings over the past three years. Tom Tresser - tom@civiclab.us
Read the book that grew out of this work: "Chicago Is Not Broke. Funding the City We Deserve" at http://www.wearenotbroke.org.
Letter to California League of Cities regarding opposition to suspending Senate Bill 375 - a smart growth, transit-oriented planning bill in California.
i c stars KC Cycle 2 "Civics 101" - Session 3Tom Tresser
This is Session 3 of "Civics 101" for Kansas City i c stars Cycle 2, delivered May 31, 2024. The instructor is Tom Tresser. Subscribe to Tom's "CivicNotes" email newsletter at http://tresser.substack.com.
i c stars KC Cycle 2 "Civics 101" - Session 2Tom Tresser
This is Session 2 of "Civics 101" for i c stars Kansas City Cycle 2, delivered May 24, 2024. The instructor is Tom Tresser, tom@tresser.com, www.tresser.com.
i c stars KC Cycle 2 "Civics 101" - Session 1Tom Tresser
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Simple URL for this presentation = www.tinyurl.com/NGC-Fight-Song-lyrics
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The simple URL for this presentation = www.tinyurl.com/TALS-NGC-Intro
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This community forum on TIFs and the proposed TIF to susbsidize the re-location of the Hollywood Casino was held in Aurora on November 4, 2023. The forum was presented by Working Families Aurora (www.facebook.com/wfaurora) and Alderman John Laesch (www.johnforaurora.com). Tom Tresser of the TIF Illumination Project (www.tifreports.com) went over the basics of TIFs and revealed - for the first time - the full impact of the TIFs of Kane County and Aurora. Stop the casino TIF! Sign the petition at https://l.ead.me/NoCasinoTIF. Reach the CivicLab and the TIF Illumination Project at info@civiclab.us.
The simple URL for this presentation = www.tinyurl.com/TIF-Meeting-11-4-23
1. total property taxes collected within the TIF
year 0, TIF is created
area develops, property taxes
increase and extra value or “incre-ment”
is collected by TIF district
what is
a TIF?
increment in
property taxes
collected by TIF
how does a TIF work?
residents of the 27th ward:
have you seen your
$255 million?
2013 $455 million
$500 mil
$400 mil
When a TIF district is created, all the property taxes gener- or the Kinzie Industrial Corridor? living in Chicago’s 27th Ward means you may be affected.
ated by the district in that year (called the “base amount”)
are tallied. After that, all property tax increases above the
base (the “increment”) are channeled to the TIF district.
not living in a TIF living in a TIF
1% forest preserve
2% city colleges
3% water reclamation
5% park district
6% cook county
14% city of chicago
36% board of education
property tax distribution, 2011
average across all 12 TIF districts in 27th ward
TIF
money
diversion
33%
1% forest preserve
3% city colleges
5% water reclamation
7% park district
9% cook county
21% city of chicago
54% board of education
sample property tax bill, 2011
age of TIF district
year 23, TIF may be dissolved
base amount
distributed to units
of local government
$300 mil
$200 mil
... yet the City claimed a budget decit of
$636 million at the start of 2012.
at the end of 2011, there was
$1.39 billion left in TIF bank accounts ...
how much have TIFs collected?
do you live in the neighborhoods of East Gareld Park, Henry Horner, Cabrini Green, Eckhart Park,
West Town, West Haven, West Loop, Greek Town, West Humboldt Park, Randolph Fulton Market,
NEAR WEST
NORTH BRANCH SOUTH
nd out more at civiclab.us
NEVER BEFORE REPORTED!
Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Districts are a big deal in Chicago and a very big deal in the
27th Ward. TIF districts were originally created to give subsidies and public resources to
private businesses to help them with construction projects and developments. They were
intended to spur development in our poorest and most blighted communities.
In 2011 TIFs extracted $455 million in prop-erty
taxes from the TIF districts across the city.
The 280 suburban TIF districts diverted $275
million. In total, the 443 TIF districts in Cook
County captured $729 million in property taxes
in 2011.
1991: 12 2011: 163
the 12 TIF districts
in the ward are:
the number of TIF districts
in Chicago has dramatically
increased. they now cover
30% of the city.
THIS IS THE AMOUNT OF PROPERTY TAXES EXTRACTED FROM THE WARD BY THE 12
TAX INCREMENT FINANCING DISTRICTS IN THE WARD OVER THE PAST NINE YEARS
$100 mil
1985
1989
1993
1997
2001
2005
2009
in 2011
washington sawyer daley emanuel
NEAR NORTH
NW INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOR
CHICAGO/KINGSBURY
KINZIE CONSERVATION
CANAL STREET/CONGRESS
CENTRAL WEST
RIVER WEST
PULASKI CORRIDOR
DIVISION/HOMAN
CHICAGO/CENTRAL PARK
2. Skinner West Elementary
Simeon Career Academy
Daley W Humboldt Library
Assorted Organizations
Jacob Beidler Elementary
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
12 TIFs took
in 2011
Schiller Middle School
Brown Elementary
Ryerson Elementary
Morton Career Academy
Manierre Elementary
$255,188,933
in property taxes, 2003-2011
non-pro
t
Heartland Housing Inc.
Rosa Parks Sites
Chicago Cambridge LP
United Hellenic Am. Congress
West Town Comm. Dev.
Breakthrough Urban Min.
Women’s Treatment Center
Lakefront Supportive Housing
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
grand
kinzie
north
division
12
21
13
14
$587,804
north branch south
Parkside Old Town I LLC River Village Townhomes LLC
North Branch Development LLC
Blommer Chocolate Co.
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
Mariano’s Grocery
Chicago Greenworks LLC
Sm. Bus. Impr. Fund (not shown)
Kingsbury Larabee LLC
W. Humboldt Tower Rental
W. Humboldt Homes
North Town Village LP
Parkside Nine Phase II LP
Peppercorn 240 LLC
Coyne American Institute Inc.
lake
Somercor 504 Inc.
Infinium Capital Management
Riv. Village Townhomes Lofts
H2O Plus Inc.
Jewel Food Stores Inc.
Clybourn Larabee LLC
Erie Cooperative LP
Nanoink Inc.
WHERE HAS THE MONEY GONE? 2003-2011
under $1million
$1million-$4.9million
$5million-9.9million
$10million and over
grand
clybourn
ogden
pulaski
central park
kedzie
california
western
damen
ashland
halsted
wells
madison
chicago
8
38
3
31 17
37
9
5
29
22
28
19
40
11
6
9
26
23
39 32
24 20
35
30 16
36
25
7 33
1
4
$70,997
pulaski industrial
$4,820,322
chicago/central pk
$205,853
division/homan
$9,613,911
kinzie industrial
$1,556,910
river west
$7,207,632
near west
$5,526,493
near north
$5,543,829
chicago/kingsbury
$59,528
canal/congress
$60,681
northwest industrial
$1,587,300
central west
is this the best way to spend the property taxes collected by the TIF districts?
civiclab.us
This TIF Illumination Project graphic poster is released in conjunction with
AREA Chicago issue #13, Home Fronts, Housing Struggles. Release date March
9, 2013. See areachicago.org for more information.
we have to demand that TIF information be
shown on our property tax bills and demand
that we help decide how to spend it!
TAKE
ACTION!
$36.8 million
42% public 46% private 12%
with $62 million to spend,
what would you do to improve the 27th ward?
*$62 million from the 27th Ward was left in the bank accounts of the 12 TIFs at the end 2011.
27 WARD
ALDERMAN
WALTER
BURNETT JR.
brought to you by: how can you help? become part of:
We are a group of volunteers who have an interest in finding out how Tax Incre-ment
Financing (TIF) districts work in Chicago and Cook County. We want to tell
the story of how they impact Chicago on a ward-by-ward basis. We understand
that TIFs extract property taxes from the ward and also return them to the ward
in the forms of projects and grants – some of the property taxes collected from the
ward return to the ward as awards to private developers and businesses and some
of those taxes return in the form of new public buildings, projects and structural
improvements. How much is taken and how much is returned and for what
purposes ? – those are the questions we are seeking to answer.
The CivicLab is a social enterprise that brings together activists and educators
with technology experts and designers to build new tools that result in smarter
civic education projects, more effective community improvement efforts and
deeper initiatives that investigate and expose the workings of local government.
We seek to investigate civic matters, educate citizens and activate public engage-ment.
We can always use volunteers who are able to investigate, design, code,
illustrate, explain, teach, train and produce events. Visit us online at civiclab.us,
or email us at info@civiclab.us.
This graphic was designed by Carlyn So. The data research was done by Cory Mollet with assistance
from Abe Epton, Harry Osoff, Rachel Metea, Robert Ross and Benjamin Sugar. The text is by Tom
Tresser. The CivicLab and TIF Illumination Project logos were designed by Virginia Duran. The
CivicLab web site was designed by Lisa Ghisolf. The members of the CivicLab Advisory Council are
Shawn Healy, Natalie Potts, Rebecca Reynolds, and Rachel Weber. The Institute for Policy and Civic
Engagement at the University of Illinois at Chicago assisted in the printing of this poster.
See www.uic.edu/cuppa/ipce for more information.
to help us investigate the details of
these particular projects, go to
tifreports.com/27th-ward/