City Council panel backs tax incentives for United Center entertainment district

Chicago taxpayers should help bankroll development of a “cultural and entertainment district” around the West Side’s United Center, a key city panel said Monday.The City Council’s Committee on Economic, Capital and Technology Development voted unanimously to provide $54.7 million in tax breaks for the first phase of the massive development planned by the owners of the Bulls and the Blackhawks. The measure still needs full City Council approval.The $7 billion “1901 Project” is meant to transform...