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Hot TypeChicago ReaderOctober 13, 2006By Michael MinerOn Monday the Tribune ran its second TIF-wary editorial of recent weeks, this one a lot tougher than the first. The Cook County Board recently had three proposals from commissioner Mike Quigley to consider that might have forced TIF sponsors -- including Mayor Daley -- to work harder to justify tax increment financing districts. The Tribune ripped the board for rolling over and approving none of them -- even though tax increment financing districts divert hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes from the county. The Reader's Ben Joravsky has been writing about TIFs for years. (He's got a new story this week, and past columns are posted under Hot Topics.) He's been wondering all along when other papers would discover the issue.
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