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"Broke" book organizer Tom Tresser issues civic challenge...
PRESS MATERIALS
Reach us @ info@wearenotbroke.org or 773-770-5714.
Purchase the book here: http://tinyurl.com/Order-Broke-Book
Download press release here.
Here are reviews.
Download image of "Chicago Is Not Broke" cover.
Here are interviews and news items covering the project, organizer Tom Tresser and chapter authors:
Reach us @ info@wearenotbroke.org or 773-770-5714.
Purchase the book here: http://tinyurl.com/Order-Broke-Book
Download press release here.
Here are reviews.
Download image of "Chicago Is Not Broke" cover.
Here are interviews and news items covering the project, organizer Tom Tresser and chapter authors:
News Stories...
- Gazette Chicago - "Is Chicago Really Broke? Book Challenges That Notion"
- Chicago News - "POWER Institute Aims to Train Next Crop of Civic Activists"
- Speaking Chicago - "Chicago Is Not Broke Says Public Interest Defender"
- Chicago News - "Corrupt Illinois Author Says Chicago Is Most Corrupt in Country"
- Chicago News - "Aldermen Unanimously Approve Budget that Hits the People Hard"
- Gazette Chicago - "Is Chicago Really Broke? Book Challenges That Notion"
- Chicago News - "POWER Institute Aims to Train Next Crop of Civic Activists"
- Speaking Chicago - "Chicago Is Not Broke Says Public Interest Defender"
- Chicago News - "Corrupt Illinois Author Says Chicago Is Most Corrupt in Country"
- Chicago News - "Aldermen Unanimously Approve Budget that Hits the People Hard"
The League of Women Voters of Illinois and Chicago held a press conference at City Hall on September 14, 2016 to explain the book and then delivered copies to the mayor and aldermen! Read about what happened at City Hall from Progress Illinois. In the picture we see Amara Enyia, Annie Logue (President of LWV Chicago), Tom Tresser, Dick Simpson, Mary Kubasak (President of LWV Illinois), Hilary Denk. Watch the video here.
Read a great interview with Chicago Magazine's Whet Moser.
"The topic seems unavoidable: Chicago is broke. Maybe it’s CPS being in “crisis mode.” Or the Chicago Police Department being understaffed with detectives. Or a potential utility tax increase to pay for municipal employee pensions.
But what if the city wasn’t actually broke? That’s the thesis of a new book, Chicago Is Not Broke: Funding the City We Deserve, edited by longtime activist Tom Tresser, cofounder of the CivicLab, NewCity’s “Best activist in the interest of the public defense,” and one of the many people behind the TIF Illumination Project, which gathers and analyzes the money within the city’s massive tax increment finance districts and where that money goes."
"The topic seems unavoidable: Chicago is broke. Maybe it’s CPS being in “crisis mode.” Or the Chicago Police Department being understaffed with detectives. Or a potential utility tax increase to pay for municipal employee pensions.
But what if the city wasn’t actually broke? That’s the thesis of a new book, Chicago Is Not Broke: Funding the City We Deserve, edited by longtime activist Tom Tresser, cofounder of the CivicLab, NewCity’s “Best activist in the interest of the public defense,” and one of the many people behind the TIF Illumination Project, which gathers and analyzes the money within the city’s massive tax increment finance districts and where that money goes."
The Chicago Defender was the ONLY media outlet to cover the "Broke" book party at the Alhambra Palace.
"Psst: Wanna Know A Big Secret?" - July, 18, 2006 - includes 2 minute video clip.
"Tom Tresser Talks TIFs" "Part 1," "Part 2"
"Chicago Is Not Not Broke Says Experts" - July 27, 2016
"Psst: Wanna Know A Big Secret?" - July, 18, 2006 - includes 2 minute video clip.
"Tom Tresser Talks TIFs" "Part 1," "Part 2"
"Chicago Is Not Not Broke Says Experts" - July 27, 2016
