“The area of Lincoln Yards is growing in value every single day without a TIF district in place,” Patel said. “That means, installing the TIF district in that community means that dollars instead of being available for schools, parks and libraries as those property values go up, instead are being captured and being handed back over to the developer. This is not OK. The strategy of the city of Chicago to prioritize our public dollars to give them to wealthy developers to make sure they move to wealthy neighborhoods is a complete misuse of the program.”