Chicago and more than 500 other taxing bodies across Cook County would be required to publish detailed information about how they use a controversial but widely used financing mechanism under a new measure pushed by county Treasurer Maria Pappas.

Commissioner John Daley will introduce an ordinance (21-1048) during Thursday's monthly Board of Commissioners meeting that would require units of government to send the treasurer's office line-item reports on expenses furnished by tax-increment financing (TIF). Twelve of Daley's 16 colleagues were listed as cosponsors on Wednesday.

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