On the agenda for the next Lake in the Hills Village Board meeting is a resolution to accept a major grant for the Automated Weather Observation System.
Information supplied by the system.
"This Project is funded through the Rebuild Illinois Airport Capital Improvement Program and establishes a total project budget of $696,900, of which the Village’s local share is $69,690 (10%), the meeting's agenda packet says.
Among the requirements of the contract is one I helped write:
Bribery. Grantee certifies that it has not been convicted of bribery or attempting to bribe an officer or employee of the State of Illinois, nor made an admission of guilt of such conduct which is a matter of record (30 ILCS 500/50-5).
After the cement truck bribery scandal in which I watched as U.S. Attorney Jim Thompson gave immunity to Lester crown, who admitted having given his lobbyist money to bribe legislators to pass the cement truck weight limit incree bill. Given corporate Immunity was Crown’s Material Service gravel company.
I introduced an amendment to the appropriations bill in 1975tp finance the “Lester Crown Weigh Station” in Barrington Hills. I figured that Barrington Hills honest Village President Alexander MacArthur, would ensure overweight violation were enforced.
Columnist Mike Royko wrote a a piece about it, which must have singed Lester Crown.
How do I know?
When I bad judgment to run against incumber Republican Congressman Robert C. McClory in1982, former McHenry County Sheriff Art Tyrrell, who provided sevurity for the Crown family, hosted a fundraiser for McClory at the John Evans Inn.
