The Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing District is a public expenditure that keeps on giving feed stock for stories. First it was the absurd waste of money for four pillars to mark the edges of the district which provides the … Continue reading
Category Archives: Downtown TIF
In its Monday editorial, the Chicago Sun-Times took on Tax Increment Financing districts. The commentary was so similar to my own. I’ll share some with you. You may remember it was Mayor Aaron Shepley and his city council’s proposal to … Continue reading
In its Monday editorial, the Chicago Sun-Times took on Tax Increment Financing districts. The commentary was so similar to my own. I’ll share some with you. You may remember it was Mayor Aaron Shepley and his city council’s proposal to … Continue reading
It looks like one of those old time gas street lights, doesn’t it? But it’s not. It’s styled to look that wa, but it was just installed in front of the Crystal Lake Park District administrative building on East Crystal … Continue reading
It looks like one of those old time gas street lights, doesn’t it? But it’s not. It’s styled to look that wa, but it was just installed in front of the Crystal Lake Park District administrative building on East Crystal … Continue reading
Someone or someones have played a shell game with local school, park, college district and other tax district officials and they all lost. The shell game involves what the City of Crystal Lake has done to local tax districts and … Continue reading
Someone or someones have played a shell game with local school, park, college district and other tax district officials and they all lost. The shell game involves what the City of Crystal Lake has done to local tax districts and … Continue reading
A lot has happened since McHenry County Blog last looked at Jim Athens’ relocation efforts for Chemtool. The growing Crystal Lake lubricants company concluded that McHenry County was not the place to expand. It gained zoning permission in Garden Prairie, … Continue reading
A lot has happened since McHenry County Blog last looked at Jim Athens’ relocation efforts for Chemtool. The growing Crystal Lake lubricants company concluded that McHenry County was not the place to expand. It gained zoning permission in Garden Prairie, … Continue reading
My nose for news was OK last night on my way home from the American Community Bank NFIB meeting between Congressman Don Manzullo and small business folks, but I didn’t stop to take a picture. At the stop sign at … Continue reading
My nose for news was OK last night on my way home from the American Community Bank NFIB meeting between Congressman Don Manzullo and small business folks, but I didn’t stop to take a picture. At the stop sign at … Continue reading