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Broadview seeking to create new TIF district

Consolidating 17th Avenue and Roosevelt Road TIFs in bid to fi ght blight

By MICHAEL ROMAIN

Editor

Broadview plans to consolidate two existing tax increment financing (TIF) districts into a single district in a move designed to spur economic development and infrastructure improvements along Roosevelt Road — the village’s main commercial corridor.

During a public hearing held Dec. 5, Pete Iosue, a consultant with Evanston-based Teska Associates, the firm that’s facilitating the process, said the new Roosevelt Road and 17th Avenue TIF district would include properties that are already located inside of the two existing Roosevelt Road and 17th Avenue TIF districts.

Currently, the 17th Avenue TIF district spans north-south, from Bataan Drive to just past Fillmore Street. The Roosevelt Road TIF eastwest from 9th Avenue to the railroad tracks.

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Maywood readies itself for hoped-for electrical vehicle, charging station boom

One of 16 suburbs chosen to participate in ComEd’s and the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus’ inaugural EV Readiness Program

By MICHAEL ROMAIN

Editor

Last month, ComEd and the Metropolitan Mayors Caucus announced that 16 suburbs will comprise the inaugural cohort of communities to participate in their EV Readiness Program, an initiative launched earlier this year “to help local governments prepare to meet the growing demand for electric vehicles (EVs) and EV charging infrastructure,” according to a statement the entities released Nov. 30.

Maywood is the only Proviso Township suburb on the list, while Oak Park was

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