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Chicago’s Small Business Improvement Fund Has Paid $158 Million Across 2,260 Projects (Median Project Share: 60 Percent) — and Its Jobs Columns Say Aspirational
The Small Business Improvement Fund fixes up commercial and industrial buildings with TIF money. Its completed-project file, read whole: $158,290,850 in grants against $311,428,135 in project costs since 2001 – 50.8 percent…

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