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Mayor Lori Lightfoot last November celebrated the third anniversary of her signature economic development program Invest South/West. This past summer, Lightfoot declared her administration is “doing things that no one else has ever done.”

But a deeper look at Invest South/West paints a much more complex and nuanced picture.

Some of the largest investments were already on the launchpad when Lightfoot took office. Others were for standard repairs to existing buildings. And many of the projects are still in the conceptual phase and have not even begun to be built. Of the more than $750 million that the city counts as part of the public spend for Invest South/West, more than half has been allocated toward those kinds of expenditures rather than new or groundbreaking projects, the Tribune found.

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