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'We can't sit around idly and wait for funding that never seems to come,' said one official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

According to a report from the Neighborhood Capital Budget Group, a not-for-profit group that has been critical of the city's oversight of the program, the city's 131 TIF districts collected a total of $329 million last year. That was up 15 percent from 2004.

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