How the TIF game is played in Chicago
Mayoral control of the schools makes Daley's hand-picked school board merely an extension of City Hall. This in turn enables downtown, business-friendly TIF plan to loot the public schools for hundreds of millions of dollars without a peep from the board. This, combined with some of the lowest levels of state funding in the nation results in massive teacher lay-off and swelling class size. The newly-elected leadership of the Chicago
