Author: Financial Planning Committee for the City of ChicagoPublisher:
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Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Chicago, a City at the Financial Crossroads
Author: Financial Planning Committee for the City of ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Chicago, a City at the Financial Crossroads
Author: Financial Planning Committee for the City of ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Chicago, the City's Financial Outlook for the 1990s
Author: Financial Research and Advisory Committee for the City of ChicagoPublisher:
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Category : Budget deficits
Languages : en
Pages : 15
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The New Chicago Way
Author: Edgar H. BachrachPublisher:
ISBN: 0809337517
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
For all the wrong reasons, a national spotlight is shining on Chicago. The city has become known for its violence, police abuse, parent and teacher unrest, population decline, and mounting municipal and pension debt. The underlying problem, contend Ed Bachrach and Austin Berg, is that deliberative democracy is dead in the city. Chicago is home to the last strongman political system in urban America. The mayor holds all the power, and any perceived checks on mayoral control are often proven illusory. Rash decisions have resulted in poor outcomes. The outrageous consequences of unchecked power are evident in government failures in elections, schools, fiscal discipline, corruption, public support for private enterprise, policing, and more. Rather than simply lament the situation, criticize specific leaders, or justify an ideology, Bachrach and Berg compare the decisions about Chicago's governance and finances with choices made in fourteen other large U.S. cities. The problems that seem unique to Chicago have been encountered elsewhere, and Chicagoans, the authors posit, can learn from the successful solutions other cities have embraced. Chicago government and its citizens must let go of the past to prepare for the future, argue Bachrach and Berg. A future filled with demographic, technological, and economic change requires a government capable of responding and adapting. Reforms can transform the city. The prescriptions for change provided in this book point toward a hopeful future: the New Chicago Way.
From Boom to Bubble
Author: Rachel WeberPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226826597
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
An unprecedented historical, sociological, and geographic look at how property markets change and fail—and how that affects cities. In From Boom to Bubble, Rachel Weber debunks the idea that booms occur only when cities are growing and innovating. Instead, she argues, even in cities experiencing employment and population decline, developers rush to erect new office towers and apartment buildings when they have financial incentives to do so. Focusing on the main causes of overbuilding during the early 2000s, Weber documents the case of Chicago’s “Millennial Boom,” showing that the Loop’s expansion was a response to global and local pressures to produce new assets. An influx of cheap cash, made available through the use of complex financial instruments, helped transform what started as a boom grounded in modest occupant demand into a speculative bubble, where pricing and supply had only tenuous connections to the market. From Boom to Bubble is an innovative look at how property markets change and fail—and how that affects cities.
Chicago's Future
Author: Dick W. SimpsonPublisher: Stipes Publishing, LLC
ISBN:
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Financial and Debt History of the City of Chicago and the Major Governments of Cook County
Author: Northern Trust CompanyPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Chicago, the Crossroads of the Business World
Author: Chicago Is Not Broke. Funding the City We Deserve
Author: Tom TresserPublisher: Civiclab
ISBN: 9781365109775
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Do you believe Chicago is broke? Me, neither. I set out to prove by assembling a great team of Chicago experts to write short articles on how can can save and generate MAJOR revenues for Chicago. Revenues that are progressive, sustainable and NOT wrung from those who can least afford to pay. Our goal is to influence the discussions around Chicago's budget and her future. All the details are at www.wearenotbroke.org.I published this via the CivicLab (which I co-founded in 2013) in the Summer of 2016. Since then we've been invited to present at 65 public meetings all over the city! "Tom Tresser's latest book is essential reading for all who have an interest and investment in the future of our city, from City Hall to the residents of each of Chicago's 77 neighborhoods. This book offers solutions, not only for the city to dig itself out from where it is, but for taxpayers, legislators, and concerned Chicagoans, to learn about the financial state of the city, and provides a progressive and responsible path forward." - Cook County Clerk David Orr "There are only a few people courageous enough to sift through the lies and tangled webs that proves Chicago isn't broke, but the politics are. Most people won't take the time to do the research, but Tom Tresser and his team have and this book should be on your list." - Karen Lewis, President, Chicago Teachers Union
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