Last week, I heard Chicago Reader columnist Ben Joravsky talked all about tax increment financing, the current complication in the City of Chicago’s budget. Originally designed to help improve blighted neighborhoods, the TIF program has turned into a slush fund with little transparency and a lot of potential for corruption. For example, the 53rd Street… [Read More]
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One First National, in Cans
When I was in college, I had an internship at Sidley & Austin, a big law firm. The offices were in what was then known as One First National Plaza, home of the First National Bank of Chicago. Of all the buildings I’ve worked in, it’s my favorite: sweeping shape, huge open lobby, magnificent plaza… [Read More]
Paying for College: The UChicago Promise
Yesterday, Robert Zimmer, president of the University of Chicago, and Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago, announced a new program, the UChicago Promise, designed to help Chicago residents get into highly selective colleges; if they go to the U of C, then their financial aid package will not have any loans. It will even… [Read More]
Big sign in the Big Windy.
At the Museum of Contemporary Art.
