Watchdog group calls to dissolve Chicago Port District
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Source: Crain’s Chicago Business
The Illinois International Port District should be disbanded since it has done little to develop maritime business at the Port of Chicago in the past 25 years, according to a new report from the Civic Federation of Chicago.
The taxpayer advocacy group, which released a highly critical report Monday on the Port District’s operations and accountability as a public agency, recommends that responsibility for the Port of Chicago on the Far South Side be turned over to the City of Chicago.
…the district lacks a long-range strategic plan to increase maritime traffic or industrial development.
The Civic Federation says the district’s last significant port improvement was in 1981 when it opened Iroquois Landing, a 100-acre freight terminal at the mouth of the Calumet River.
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