Kankakee County residents, Did You Know?

The Chicago Reporter did an investigation of problems at the Kankakee County Jail. Read what they found

3,195 former Illinois government employees receive pensions of over $100.000 per year.

Locally, if Kankakee County Sheriff Tim Bukowski is reelected in 2010 and serves most of his 4 year term, he will receive an estimated $80,000 per year in retirement income from the taxpayers.

Recorder of Deeds, Democrat Lori Gadbois, hired State Representative Lisa Dugan's son in-law, Michael Roof at a salary of $38,000 a year. He was given the position of Deputy Recorder. Michael Roof is married to Lisa Dugan's daughter Jaclyn who heads up the Bradley/Bourbonnais Chamber of Commerce, a position formerly held by her mother, Lisa Dugan. Lori Gadbois was elected as the new Kankakee County Recorder of Deeds in November, 2008.

www.IllinoisVictims.org says Kankakee County States Attorney Jamie Boyd took a $500 campaign donation from an attorney defending a rape suspect then Boyd delayed the case until the victim died. Click here to watch their press conference http://www.blip.tv/file/5051063

Kankakee County Finance Director, Steve McCarty recently stated at a committee meeting that the County has no idea what the out of county inmates, the sheriff is bringing in, are costing to house them here. He said his office does not keep tract of the separate expenses associated with the out of county inmates! Do you know any business that would operate that way?

Kankakee County Sheriff Tim Bukowksi and his under sheriff have put several of their family members on the sheriff's department's payroll..

Aqua Illinois is one of State Representative Lisa Dugan's local campaign donors and her sister is employed by Aqua as an administrator.

The Superintendent of BBCHS, Mike Hogan, sends his children to private school and lives out of the BBCHS district in the City Of Kankakee.

The business manager of BBCHS was given a 21% raise from $100,000 a year to $121,000 a year. He then retired and collected a full pension based on the $121,000. He continued to do the same job as the BBCHS business manager for several years while collecting a full pension from the taxpayers. He was called an independent contractor while collecting a salary in addition to his full pension.

BBCHS has a P.E. teacher who is being paid $106,000 a year as of 2006. No wonder they are broke and will have two referendums on the ballot this November to raise property taxes. You can find the full BBCHS salary schedule elsewhere on this site. Just scroll down the menu.

The business partner of Tom Volini, the developer of the proposed Kankakee Mayor Green Garbage Dump, has been linked to the Chicago mob and the Chicago hired truck scandal by the Chicago newspapers. His name is Fred Barbara. The Chicago Sun-Times has reported this link in several articles.

An article titled "Mob Ties Run Throughout City Truck Program" written by Sun-Times reporters Steve Warmbir and Tim Novak dated January 25, 2004 states that Mr. Barbara is a nephew of the late City of Chicago Alderman Fred Roti, a made member of the Chicago mob. This article and two others published in 2004 go into great detail about Mr. Barbara's and his family's checkered past.

The Chicago Tribune has also reported on Mr. Barbara in an article titled "City Cooks Blue Bag Books." There you will learn that Mr. Barbara has close ties to Chicago City Hall. This article was published March 20, 2005.

Naturally none of this has been reported by the Kankakee area papers or radio stations. Thank God for the Chicago media!

Feddeler landfill located west of Lowell Indiana is leaking into the Kankakee River. This is upstream from the City of Kankakee and the Aqua Illinois water intake pipe.

Five hundred barrels of hazardous waste were dumped at the old Feddeler landfill west of Lowell, according to a memo by an Indiana Department of Environmental Management official.

Even so, the state did not bother to test the leachate flowing out of the now-closed landfill and into a stream that feeds the Kankakee River, according to the memo, which The Times obtained this week.

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