Is Chicago ready for TIF reform? Perhaps it’s ready for some reasonable changes to the internal workings of the special taxing scheme, but who knows about the future of the city’s structural tax and budget problems.
A bike nerd post about stumbling on an obscure piece of local bike manufacturing history: the fillet-brazed lightweight Schwinn.
The mayor’s Tax Increment Financing Task Force issues its final report just before the new mayor holds two budget townhalls. There’s actually some straight talk in it, but no calls for radical change.
On Eight Forty-Eight this morning, WBEZ aired its interview with Rahm Emanuel, in commemoration of the mayor’s first 100 days in office. The discussion, hosted by Alison Cuddy, was taped Wednesday night at an event cohosted by the radio station and the Chicago History Museum…
Alex Kotlowitz talks to an ex-gang member who gives the barbers at his Cicero shop second and third—even fourth—chances to turn their lives around.
An 88 percent hike in tollway fares opens up the inevitable frustration. If these sorts of fares rose with inflation like most other things we pay for, politicians could rest a little easier.
A honey company and the North Lawndale Employment Network put ex-offenders to work as beekeepers in the shadow of O’Hare.
Much of the East Coast just took a hit from a 5.9-magnitude earthquake near Washington, DC, centered between Charlottesville and Richmond. Here’s why it was felt not just in the nation’s capital, but in New York City as well. Plus: why the East Coast’s less frequent, less intense earthquakes affect the region more than on the West Coast.
A recent study conducted in Illinois colleges finds the usual: students don’t know how to research stuff. Only now, they don’t know how to research stuff using Google. They were just born too late.
President Obama’s chief campaign strategist tells us why the 2012 headquarters are back in Chicago, what he misses about life in the White House, and where his Cubs/Sox allegiances lie
