Article: Dueling over Five Corners

Allen L. Kracower, a consultant hired by businesses in Des Plaines' Five Corners area -- the area near River Road, Rand Road and Lee Street -- claims that the city's development consultants really gave "no response at all" to the objections he raised over plans to establish a tax increment financing (TIF) district there.

In the report that Kane, McKenna & Associates, the city's consultants, presented to the City Council on June 26, the firm said that the 90-acre area suffers from deleterious land use, lack of community planning, deteriorating buildings, obsolescence, inadequate utilities and declining equalized assessed valuations. These are among the conditions legally identified as ...

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