Businessmen seek $5 million in TIF funding to install surveillance cameras in Fulton Market, Garfield Park

A group of business and community leaders wants to use $5 million in tax increment financing money to buy 200 new surveillance cameras for the Fulton Market and Garfield Park areas. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

A small group of business and community leaders urged city officials Monday to use $5 million in tax increment financing money to buy 200 surveillance cameras for the swanky Fulton Market District and the historically violent Garfield Park area.

Roger Romanelli, executive director of the Fulton Market Association, said the additional police observation devices, or POD cameras, can be used to “help our understaffed police officers fight and defeat the criminals in our city.”