Progress Illinois

Mayor Daley is keeping mum about the Chicago’s stimulus wishlist. And his
excuse for keeping the information under wraps sounds strangely
familiar.

Late yesterday, he told reporters
that while the city had already prioritized potential shovel-ready
projects, he did ...

Over the past year, we’ve written extensively about the serious lack of oversight in Chicago’s tax increment financing (TIF) system. We’ve noted that, while TIF
was devised as an economic development tool for blighted communities,
Mayor Daley began ignoring that ...

In a post yesterday about Mayor Richard Daley’s attempt to secure direct stimulus dollars from the federal government, we mentioned that the city’s inability to provide matching funds could be a major impediment. Today brought news from the Sun-Times that the city already ...

In the days since the Republic Windows sit-in turned into a national story, the Illinois state treasurer, attorney general, governor, as well as numerous congressmen, aldermen, and county commissioners have expressed concern for the workers and begun to pressure Bank of ...