Tom was interviewed on WVON on September 20, 2021 covering the state of Chicago’s civic finances in the wake of Mayor Lightfoot’s 2022 Budget Address. In this wide-ranging thirty minute interview we cover a lot of ground for justice and equity in Chicago!
Tom on WGN 9-18-21
Tom was interviewed by “Outside the Loop” host Mike Stephen on September 18, 2021. We went over how TIFs work and reviewed the headlines for Chicago’s 2020 TIF record-breaking TIF activities. Tom explains how the Massachusetts Institute of Technology agrees with the CivicLab that TIFs are racist.
We are proud to announce that the CivicLab’s TIF Illumination Project was a finalist for the MIT Solve Global Challenge “Antiracist Technology in the U.S.”! Seven winners were chosen from the 15 finalists from this challenge. There are four other global challenges and over 1,800 solutions were submitted from 29 countries! The 35 winners across all five challenges shared a $2 million prize pool! Our solution-> http://tinyurl.com/Vote-4-CL-Tech-Challenge Watch the pitch below:
This has been an incredible few weeks! On April 23, 2021 the Chicago Tribune ran the most complete explanation of the TIF Illumination Project since we started the work in 2013! Thanks to the citizen organizers of Save Our Southland SOS!
On May 10, 2021 I was interviewed on WBEZ’s “Reset” program by Sasha-Ann Simon. The 16 minute segment was part of their series “Re-Imagine Chicago.”
My chapter “Chicago Is Not Broke – Moving from Scarcity to Abundance” appears in Prof. Dick Simpson’s newly released “Twenty-First Century Chicago” from Cognella Press. Guess who has the next chapter in the book? Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Pretty cool, no?
I gave these short remarks at the April 2019 NewFounders Conference in Chicago. If you agree, please follow me @tomstee!
I’m proud to be a member of the inaugural National Advisory Board for the Public Banking Institute.
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