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or vote early! Community Driven Decisions Elected School Board Put an end to conflicts of interest and bring citizens back into decisions that affect their children’s future TIF Reform Budget deficits and slashed services call for restoring the unspent $1.5 billion in TIF dollars back into the city for schools, libraries and parks New Direction for Chicago Vote #55 Byron Sigcho for 25th Ward Alderman UIC Teacher - Immigrant - Activist - LSC Member Holistic Development Planning Keep the West Loop family friendly with a new library and expansion of Skinner Elementary Tues. FEB. 24th Until Feb. 21st @ Chinatown Library 2353 S Wentworth Ave. Common Sense Development Invest in Communities Rebuild our neighborhoods social fabric and make Chicago affordable and welcoming to everyone Participatory Budgeting Allow communities to set priorities and empower them to help decide how tax dollars are spent Responsive Aldermanic Office Make residents the alderman’s first priority, end ‘Pay to Play’ in the 25th Ward Paid for by Friends of Byron Sigcho

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Page 1: SIGCHO 8.5x5.5 Mailer S W Loop

or vote early!

Community Driven Decisions

Elected School BoardPut an end to con�icts of interest and bring citizens back into decisions that a�ect their children’s future

TIF ReformBudget de�cits and slashed services call for restoring the unspent $1.5 billion in TIF dollars back into the city for schools, libraries and parks

New Direction for Chicago

Vote #55

Byron Sigchofor 25th Ward Alderman

UIC Teacher - Immigrant - Activist - LSC Member

Holistic Development PlanningKeep the West Loop family friendly with a new library and expansion of Skinner Elementary

Tues. FEB. 24thUntil Feb. 21st

@ Chinatown Library2353 S Wentworth Ave.

Common Sense Development

Invest in CommunitiesRebuild our neighborhoods social fabric and make Chicago a�ordable and welcoming to everyone

Participatory BudgetingAllow communities to set priorities and empower them to help decide how tax dollars are spent

Responsive Aldermanic O�ceMake residents the alderman’s �rst priority, end ‘Pay to Play’ in the 25th Ward

Paid for by Friends of Byron Sigcho

Page 2: SIGCHO 8.5x5.5 Mailer S W Loop

Danny Solis Career Politician & Daley Machine

Byron SigchoUIC Teacher, Community Leader & LSC Member

Part of coalition that shut down the Fisk coal plant, linked to 43 early deaths a year

Opposed putting surplus dollars from TIF districts back on the budget; instead used TIF funds to create blight (18th and Peoria)

Opposed massive school closingsYES for a Democratically Representative School BoardSupports moratorium on new charters until corruption cases are cleared

Supports putting unspent TIF dollars back on the budget for schools, libraries and parks

Supported massive school closingsNO to a Democratically Representative School BoardFounder of UNO, Under investigation for corruption;Recipient of UNO’s top brass donations

Supports new metal shredder across from high school; shedder under federal investigation, environmental violations (Acme Re�ning)

Was the main obstacle to passing an ordinance to shut down the plants 10 years earlier; people continued to get sick or die

Tax Increment Financing (TIF)

Environment

Education

Solis Pay to Play Facts

Top donors $102,900 - Hop Kee Inc. Found guilty on federal charges for storing tons of adulterated meat with rats and pests

$66,200 - Richland Group Enterprises Lost mortgage license on loan sharking charges

$40,000 - Acme Re�ning Shredder under federal investigation linked to money laundering scheme

$34,150 - D’Escoto Inc. UNO leaders, lost job over preferential hiring of family business with tax payer dollars

Received thousands in political contributions from TIF bene�ciaries; sits on $134 million in TIF dollars

Special-Use Permit

$9 million in TIF Funds

Years of Air Pollution

Every Vote in City Council

Pure Metals LLCBenito Juarez High School

Metal Shredder

Midwest GenerationFisk & Crawford

Coal Plants

Rahm EmanuelMayor of Chicago

Chicago International Produce MarketDistribution Center

$65k

$50k

$45k

$31kOpposes new shredder across from Benito Juarez high school

Until Feb. 21st @ Chinatown Library

2353 S Wentworth Ave.

Supports a community budgeting process to decide the best use of the $134 million in 25th ward TIF dollars

Donor Solis Action

Paid for by Friends of Byron Sigcho