The time is ripe for a top-to-bottom review of the convention center/hotel by a probing Village Board or independent citizen committee.

The secrecy, deception, and total lack of due diligence in the determination of this blight expansion is an outrage.

Since the building was actually vacant for less than one year before the purchase on January 4, 2007, this building is not eligible for the 7B tax break.

It is unlikely that the Career Education Corporation 7B redevelopment to meet the requirement being “reasonably expected to ultimately result in an increase in real property tax revenue and employment opportunities within the area”.

Career Education says they cannot relocate their headquarters to the vacant building at 231 N Martingale without a 60% property tax break for 10 years. This claim is weak and unsubstantiated.

Due diligence by the Village is so perfunctory and meager that the Village Board and staff were not aware of what buildings were in their own Commercial Blight Area Resolution!

Shouldn’t we be looking for ways to cut wasteful government spending and reducing the highest sales taxes in U.S. history rather than dreaming up additional ways to sink the local economy with additional tax burdens?

The Old Schaumburg Center parking lot plan is completely unnecessary, and an unfair advantage to a privileged few businesses at the expense of all other local taxpayers.

If it were not for a Freedom of Information Act request, the Village of Schaumburg would still be hiding the $95,000,000 corporate welfare subsidy.

We strongly oppose the taxpayer financing of the O’Hare Airport expansion. We oppose it for the same reasons we oppose the taxpayer financing of the expansion to Schaumburg Airport.

The Schaumburg Freedom Coalition has learned that in order to achieve even a modest $2.2 million dollar loss the Schaumburg Convention Center is commanding huge sums of taxpayer money to pad the books favoribly.

With the taxpayer’s of Schaumburg funding millions of dollars for the local professional baseball team & stadium, we should at least recognize the taxpayer’s sacrifice in the renaming of the stadium to Alexian/Taxpayers Field.

Soaking the taxpayers again and again to operate and expand Schaumburg Regional Airport is exactly the opposite of smart planning for our village.

There is no time like now for Schaumburg to end corporate welfare, sell the stadium and the surrounding land to the highest bidder, and recoup as much of the taxpayers’ expenses as possible.

Have you ever connected the dots between Sam & Harry’s Restaurant and the Schaumburg Village Board? We have.

From the September 21st, 2005 Daily Herald article entitled “D.C. steakhouse chosen for new hotel Schaumburg wanted restaurant that would attract residents,…