James Cappleman

Mayor Emanuel's old campaign manager helps bring an Uptown TIF deal back to life
By Ben Joravsky

The last time the TIF-funded deal atMontrose and Clarendon reared its ugly not-so-little head was on a sweltering day in June, when everyone involved would have been better off watching the NBA finals.

About 600 people crammed into the Clarendon Park field house for a community referendum on a developer's proposal to spend $50 million in public money to build condos, a health club, and a grocery store on a 31-acre site now occupied by a vacant medical facility.