Twenty-three years of the Bronzeville TIF: every dollar raised and every dollar spent, 2002 through 2025.

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Reconciled twenty-three-year Bronzeville TIF revenue and expenditure accounting, drawn from Cook County Clerk TIF Annual Reports, the Chicago DOF Annual Financial Analysis, and Chicago DPD project-level files. Every source record is public under the Illinois TIF Act disclosure requirements.

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bronzeville-tif-revenue-2002-2025.csv
Annual increment by overlapping taxing body.
24.0 kB
bronzeville-tif-expenditures-2002-2025.csv
Project-level expenditure with category.
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bronzeville-tif-project-list.csv
31 projects with within-district share.
31.0 kB
bronzeville-tif-comparison-districts.csv
Comparison rates for adjacent districts.
18.0 kB

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Code MIT, derived data CC BY 4.0.

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The columns and types you can expect once the archive is live. Sample rows are intentionally omitted; we publish only verified records, not synthetic placeholders.

Schema · 4 columns · no sample rows

Column	Type	Description
year	int
increment_usd	numeric
category	text	within-district \| adjacent-transfer \| regionally-significant \| balance
amount_usd	numeric

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Twenty-Three Years of Tax Increment Financing in Bronzeville

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