The Lawndale Alliance,in Partnership withThe North Lawndale Community NewsPresents

The Community Awareness Series

Meeting III: TIF Town Hall

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Sponsored by the University of Illinois at Chicago

Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement

This presentation is dedicated to the following persons:

Ms. Jacqueline Leavy, a local community activist, and former executivedirector of the Neighborhood Capital Budget Group, for her leadership in providing education, training and advocacy for grassroots organizations

seeking greater transparency in the City of Chicago’s capital budget,

transportation and TIF funding.Mr. Ben Joravsky, Columnist with the Chicago Reader. For years, Ben hasserved as one of the few voices in the wilderness, raising questions onmatters concerning the TIF program, school finances and transparency in our local government. Ben has played a prominent role in educatingleadership of the Lawndale Alliance on the impacts of the TIFs and has played a major role in making TIFs a household name in Chicago. Joe Ann Bradley, former North Lawndale resident and co-founder of theLawndale Alliance. Joe Ann has served on the board of theNeighborhood Capital Group and was the first to discover an unhealthy pattern of potential abuse of eminent domain with the Ogden Pulaski TIF.

University of Illinois at Chicago, Institutefor Policy and Community EngagementNorth Lawndale Community NewsCAN-TVWillie Mae BowlingDebbie CannonJames FallsDorothy GoldsmithMillie GoldsmithDeidre GreenJoseph HoerethValerie F. LeonardIsaac LewisWilliam Miceli, EsqZina SimmonsAndrew RedmondDavid RedmondCarl RoyCedric RoyDorothy WilliamsGladys Woodson

The Lawndale Alliance wishes to acknowledge the followingfor making this town hall meeting a success