Last month we hosted The CivicLab at the Public Newsroom for a primer on Chicago’s Tax Increment Financing (TIF) fund. On September 14 we’ll follow up with a deep dive into the latest city-issued TIF report—join City Bureau and their Documenters at Build Coffee as they present findings from the August 26 release and make the data available as a searchable spreadsheet detailing TIFs used, exchanged, and renewed in 2016. Members of the community are invited to weigh in, remix, and discuss the data on a local level.
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