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NATO Summit Tour Continues in Englewood and Brighton Park (Part II)
In its continued efforts to show journalists a side of the city that many have not seen, the Grassroots Collaborative took local and national journalists on day two of the “99% Tour.” The tour, which visited Little Village and Back of the Yards on day one, took the small group of journalists to Englewood and [...]
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NATO Summit Tour Takes Journalists to the South Side (Part I)
What do Chicago neighborhoods have to do with NATO? According to leaders of local community organizations, the answer is a lot. “Sixty percent of our federal tax dollars go to the military,” said La Villita Community Church Pastor Victor Rodriguez. “In Cook County alone $9.8 billion will go to funding the military and wars. That’s [...]
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Mayor’s Infrastructure Trust Ordinance Raises Concerns Over Transparency, Accountability
On Monday, April 16 community groups urged their aldermen to vote “no” on the mayor’s Infrastructure Trust Ordinance, an ordinance that if passed will give corporate investors the opportunity to finance future development projects in the city of Chicago. Early in March, Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced the Chicago Infrastructure Trust as “an innovative way to [...]
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Community Residents Request G8 Funds to Go Toward Job Creation, Safety
With the relocation of the G8 summit, community leaders gathered in front of the World Business Chicago (WBC) building urging Mayor Rahm Emmanuel to relocate the summit’s funds towards creating neighborhood jobs and safer communities. “We feel that that money should go to help make our communities safer by creating some jobs that could take [...]
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Working Families and Occupy Movement are Winning
Grassroots Collaborative Urges CME’s Return of $15 Million in TIF to be Immediately Declared Surplus Since May 2011, the Grassroots Collaborative and the Occupy Movement have been calling upon Mayor Rahm Emanuel to end the practice of subsidizing billionaire corporations with taxpayer TIF money, especially in downtown Chicago. Since June 2011, the organization has called [...]
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TIF Spending: Who’s Really Benefiting?
David Uriostegui understands the need for budgets. He has an 8-month-old daughter and up until recently, he worked three minimum-wage jobs and continues to struggle as he manages to make ends meet. But he is not the only one. Uriostegui has seen many neighborhood residents around his community, barely having the means to survive. “[The [...]
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Community Groups Set the Tone on TIF Reform
“Egregious misuse of public money must end,” said Amisha Patel, Executive Director of the Grassroots Collaborative on Thursday July 28 at the Task Force on TIF Reform forum. “Of the 2.45 billion in TIF dollars spent from 2004 through 2008, the Loop, Near North Side, Near South Side, and Near West Side communities received $1.56 [...]
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People’s City Council Drafts New Resolution
On Thursday July 7, the UIC forum became the gathering place for a mock city council debate led by activists, city residents and union members. Over 1,000 Chicagoans representing a coalition of community and labor groups gathered in support of a one-of-a-kind “people’s city council meeting.” “We will hear the stories of how American families [...]
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