CivicLab Coming Back In 2018!

CivicLab projects
We are thrilled to announce that we are coming back as a physical space in 2018! We never stopped our civic work – see the TIF Illumination Project, the “Chicago Is Not Broke” Book Project, the POWER Institute and our new site documenting Chicago’s toxic civic eco-system, ChicagoCivics.

We have a LOT of work to do – including our extending our TIF work into legal research and litigation and our newest work, The Democracy Protection Project which will build on our candidate recruiting and training to include legal assistance with getting and staying on the ballot!

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All TIF Presentations Now Available

Since February of 2013 The TIF Illumination Project has Illuminated 127 TIFs across 29 wards in front of some 3,400 people. In case you missed any of those thrilling presentations, you can now download any or all of them for only $2.50 each at our new  TIF Data Store.  Just click on the “TIF Illumination” category and you’ll see all the presentations and other files that are available.

Remember, while the TIF work is 100% volunteer powered, we have to cover the expenses of our home, the CivicLab and we’d also like to build an online platform to make all this data (and much more) easily available.

You can also donate a tax deductible contribution via our fiscal agent, the Investigative News Network here.

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“TIF 101” Presentation Now Online

Want to take a crash course in Tax Increment Financing? If so, watch this 33 minute video that will introduce the topic and reveal the details of TIF in Chicago and the work of the TIF Illumination Project. The presenter is CivicLab co-founder, Tom Tresser, who is the Lead Organizer for the TIF research and presenter at TIF town meetings. The video is on this page. It’s password protected and we’re asking a contribution of $5.00 to get the password. All our work is 100% volunteer driven but we’ve some bills to pay and plans to expand. You’re welcome to invest more in our work, of course! Please use this PayPal link to make your payment. When we receive notice of your payment we’ll email you the password.

TIF 101 video+slide-screen

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