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School conference hotels, food, travel cost taxpayers $277,086

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Batavia Unit District 101 taxpayers covered a $1,929.75 tab at Morton's Steakhouse in Chicago during a November conference when a vendor didn't pick up the bill as district officials had hoped.

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A 16-person group from Batavia Unit District 101 spent $1,929.75 on a dinner party that included a $57 New York strip steak meal, multiple $15 lobster bisques and two cake desserts that cost $14.50 each.

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Come for the conference, stay for the hotel room, $57 steak dinner, valet parking and laundry service. Those are just some of the extra costs taxpayers in 89 suburban school districts covered for board members and administrators who attended a November conference in Chicago. The districts racked up $277,086.17 in hotel, food, travel and incidental costs over the weekend-long conference.

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    • Batavia Unit District 101 taxpayers covered a $1,929.75 tab at Morton's Steakhouse in Chicago during a November conference when a vendor didn't pick up the bill as district officials had hoped.
    • A 16-person group from Batavia Unit District 101 spent $1,929.75 on a dinner party that included a $57 New York strip steak meal, multiple $15 lobster bisques and two cake desserts that cost $14.50 each.
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