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GAINES the districts to establish a Pioneer Press plan to recapture the funds over an extended period of A slew oftaxingbodies intime' according to a memo Niles, Morton Grove and from District 64 staff to the Lincoinwood receiveddistrict's Board of Educa- word last month they owe tion.District staff wrote the Illinois Department ofthat they had not yet re- Revenue between tens ofceived word on how the thousands to more thanmoney will be repaid. At $500,000 in tax revenuepress time, the board was wrongly distributed to thescheduled to discuss the agencies over the last two issue May 9. years. Niles Township High The errors are part of aSchool District 219 Assist- misallocation of $168 mil-ant Superintendent for lion worth of tax revenueBusiness Eric Timberger dispersed by the state tosaid the district has not yet local governments sincereceived an officialnoti- 2014. About 6,500 taxing fication on the issue. district throughIllinois "According to the Illinois were affected by the errorDepartment of Revenue and Chicago taxing districts website, recoupment of were hithardest. Whileoverpaid funds will be.n Chicago Public Schools is no earlier than January on the hook for about $23.5 2017," Timberger said in an million worth of overpaid email.