The pinnacle of last week’s Take Back Chicago rally at UIC came near the end, when the 11 aldermen onstage were asked point-blank whether they support pending proposals to slow privatization and tax increment financing deals. Yes or no?
I don’t think he was trying to be funny, but I laughed anyway.
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But getting an alderman to sign on as cosponsor of legislation that he or she knows will die in the City Council’s rules committee is not a victory.
I have a way out of this charade. But first let me examine the legislation in question.
And even then they’d seek a mayoral permission slip in writing.
By the way, when Sawyer introduced his ordinance, the chairman of the rules committee was Alderman Richard Mell.
By their count, the TIF surplus adds up to $1.7 billion.
