Parents Team Up To Get TIF Money To Struggling Schools

Parents Team Up To Get TIF Money To Struggling Schools
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If I hadn't seen it, I wouldn't believe it.

There must have been more than 100 people--most of them parents of Chicago Public Schools students--sitting in the auditorium of a south-side grammar school last week and talking about radically reforming Mayor Daley's tax increment financing program.

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