Chicago Daily Observer

You might say that the residents and activists of Edgewater have their backs against the wall.

In recent months the city’s given them an ultimatum: if you want $8 million to save affordable housing for senior citizens, you’d better endorse the proposed Hollywood/Sheridan tax increment financing district, which will wind up costing taxpayers about $75 million in property tax dollars…....

(Crain’s)—Showing near-palpable disgust, Metra board members Friday blasted Springfield’s inability to pass a funding plan for the region’s cash-strapped public transit agencies.
Barbed comments represent a sharp departure from local public transit officials’ oft-repeated mantra that they…