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      <title>Comments On: It&apos;s even better in English
    
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    <author><![CDATA[Hugh]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[the def of "redevelopment project," which requries a public hearing, is very broad:
    
    "Redevelopment project" means any public and private development project in furtherance of the objectives of a redevelopment plan.
    
    ILCS 5/11&acirc;&#128;&#145;74.4&acirc;&#128;&#145;3(o)
        
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      <![CDATA[our right to a public hearing on all TIF expenditures:
    
    "Prior to the adoption of an ordinance proposing the designation of a redevelopment project area, or approving a redevelopment plan or redevelopment project, the municipality by its corporate authorities, or as it may determine by any commission designated under subsection (k) of Section 11&acirc;&#128;&#145;74.4&acirc;&#128;&#145;4 shall adopt an ordinance or resolution fixing a time and place for public hearing."
    
    65 ILCS 5/11&acirc;&#128;&#145;74.4&acirc;&#128;&#145;5(a)
        
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      <![CDATA[here's another fav:
    
    "A municipality may by municipal ordinance amend an existing redevelopment plan to conform to this paragraph (3) as amended by Public Act 91&acirc;&#128;&#145;478, which municipal ordinance may be adopted without further hearing or notice ... "
    
    In the English: once the Illinois legislature authorizes a TIF extension, no local notice or public hearing is required to extend a TIF from 23 (read 24) to 35 (read 36) years.
        
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      <![CDATA[23 is legal-ese for 24
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Carter]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[We may have a contender for the world's record in the "run-on sentence" category, if nothing else.
    
    Do any of the people who write this stuff ever communicate with living, human beings?  Try reading that TIF act paragraph out loud without stopping for a breath.
        
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      <![CDATA[The Goodman has commissioned a musical version from Mary Zimmerman.
        
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      <![CDATA[Paul Keller gets the prize for not getting the joke and missing the point. WHICH IS, just so that it's a little bit harder to miss, that the TIF legislation is hard to understand, even for people who read it, and the TIFs for Tots is a humorous jab at the legislation and people who misrepresent its meaning and function.
    
    Leaving the rest of us to wonder if Keller is really so thick and uptight that he couldn't notice that the thing was funny, or if maybe he's one of the people being made fun of, who benefit in some way from keeping the thing obscure.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[poem to Daley]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[poem to Daley
    June 23rd - 2:35 a.m.
    Every law you break 
    Every move you make 
    For the land at stake 
    If the park you take 
    We'll be watching you! 
    
    Every single day 
    Every vote you sway 
    Every lie you say 
    Every term you stay 
    We'll be watching you! 
    
    Grant Park must be 
    Open clear and free 
    City hearts just ache 
    With every dig you make 
    
    Every law you break 
    Every move you make 
    For the land at stake 
    If the park you take 
    We'll be watching you! 
    
    When parkland's gone, it's lost without a trace 
    Protect our green; don't develop one more space 
    It's ours, not yours and its land you can't replace 
    Give up this scheme; it's the depths of your disgrace 
    We keep crying Daley, Daley please . . . 
    
    Grant Park must be 
    Open clear and free 
    City hearts just ache 
    With every dig you make 
    
    Every law you break 
    Every move you make 
    For the land at stake 
    If the park you take 
    We'll be watching you! 
    
    Every law you break 
    Every move you make 
    We'll be watching you! 
    There is no hole where we won't go, to find and try you. So man on five you are hereby on notice.
        
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      <![CDATA[TIFs are politicians specifically Daley's slush fund
        
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    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:41:21 -0500</pubDate> 
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    <author><![CDATA[Hugh]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[ooo! ooo! can I play,too?
    
    here's MY fav stanza:
    
    "The redevelopment plan establishes the estimated dates of completion of the redevelopment project and retirement of obligations issued to finance redevelopment project costs. Those dates: shall not be later than December 31 of the year in which the payment to the municipal treasurer as provided in subsection (b) of Section 11&#x2011;74.4&#x2011;8 of this Act is to be made with respect to ad valorem taxes levied in the twenty&#x2011;third calendar year after the year in which the ordinance approving the redevelopment project area is adopted ... "
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Evan]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[TIF act is a classic, to be sure, but I've always preferred more modern reading: 235 ILCS 5/6&acirc;&#128;&#145;11 (the exceptions to the Liquor Act's locations restrictions) is one of the great comedic works of our age.
        
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    <pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:51:02 -0500</pubDate> 
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