A Way to Recoup the Costs of the Virginia Street TIF Monuments

Besides increasing parking fees and fining people $100 for speeding past a camera, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel has come up with an idea that might work in Crystal Lake.

He suggests selling space on public places, such as bridge monuments.

Here’s what an advertisement might look llike on one of the monuments on the Michigan Avenue Bridge in Chicago.

If there, why not on the Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing District Corridor?

Crystal Lake might be able to pay for the $64,000 worth of pillars through advertising.


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A Way to Recoup the Costs of the Virginia Street TIF Monuments — 8 Comments

  1. The worst decision Rahm Emanuel and Bank of America made. The ad on the bridge looks awful. I have a better idea. How about a Bank of America ad on Emanuel’s car, assuming he’s getting a car allowance. How about his body guards wear Bank of America t-shirts and baseball hats. Rahm can carry a Bank of America gym bag to his workouts. Bank of America ad on the city’s home page. Paint city hall in Bank of America colors and logo. O’Hare. Lots of people visit O’hare. Everyone that walks through security receives a Bank of America goody bag. The Bean – we can paint that with the Bank of America logo.

    I think it’s time to cut salaries, benefits, and spending to what we can afford, rather than trash the city with graffiti. Or I mean advertisements.

  2. Spoiling more of the few things that aren’t already tainted with advertising makes no sense to me.

    The world is not supposed to look like a sewer.

  3. And who’s going to sit on those benches along Virginia as cars and trucks thunder by? these benches are certainly not designed for comfort or located for safety. Virgiinia is not a pedestrian walkway. Money would have been better spent to assist these businesses to create a more uniform architectural theme along the TIP strip

  4. $16,00 here, $16,00 there, before long we could be talking about real money with this wastefull spending of our tax dollars!

  5. The cost was $16,000 each for the monuments.

    $64,000 in all.

    Plus 23 years of interest.

  6. Those monuments look more like tombstones.

    Perhaps the CL citizens can bury the fools who spent the money underneath them. Doh.

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