Protesters march to Mayor Rahm Emanuel's home in Chicago to protest a proposed $16 million TIF for construction of a high-end residential development at the former, vacant Maryville Academy site in Uptown.

The city can't clean up the contaminated site that formerly housed Protano Auto without some kind of funding, but the grant program that contributed to the project in the past isn't accepting applications.

The only intermodal freight facility to ever take advantage of a special federal private activity bond program is back for a third round of financing.

Developer Ashoo Sethi pleaded guilty to defrauding Chinese EB-5 investors of $158M in a failed hotel development near O'Hare International Airport.

Chicago is seeking a developer to design, build and finance the replacement of nearly 350,000 streetlights for the Chicago Smart Lighting Project. The City hopes the project can be funded without taxpayer dollars.

Join the CDFA Illinois Financing Roundtable for the fourth annual conference. This event will feature a number of economic development finance experts from around the state discussing development finance tools, authorities, resources and approaches, and how these can affect the Illinois economy going forward.

The Intro Bond Finance Course provides an in-depth look at governmental and qualified private activity bonds, with a focus on industrial development bonds (IDBs), 501(c)(3) non-profit bonds, exempt facility bonds, and other special bond programs authorized by the federal government.

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