BURR RIDGE, IL – In Monopoly, a “bank error in your favor” is a Community Chest Card that instructs players to collect $200.
It can be a lot more in real life.
At a Village Board meeting, Mayor Gary Grasso reported the state recently sent the village $2 million for “an old accounting error.”
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“We’re still getting more information, but the check cleared, right?” the mayor said.
Village Administrator Evan Walter confirmed it had.
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“A bank error in your favor,” Walter said.
Grasso said the village would provide more information at the board’s Sept. 9 meeting. He said the village is trying to find out more about how the error happened and how to prevent such a situation in the future.
“Somewhere somebody made an error big enough that we got a check for $2 million,” Grasso said.
Added the village’s attorney, Mike Durkin, “That’s better than being on the opposite end.”
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