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The Bourbs Daily
Monday, October 5, 2026 ☀ 71°/43° — Sunny
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Editor's Note
Good Monday morning, Kankakee County. Dale here, back at it with you on October 5th. I know, I know -- Monday mornings take some warming up to. But here we are, with October in full swing, a cool breeze in the air, and the week stretched out in front of us. The fields are still busy, the river trail is about as pretty as it gets this time of year, and your neighbors have things going on that are worth knowing about. Let's start the week right.
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Area Mayors Highlight Growth, Collaborations at Annual Kankakee County Chamber Luncheon
Mayors from Kankakee, Bourbonnais, Bradley and Manteno gathered at The Majestic on Oct. 1 to deliver their State of the Municipalities. The Kankakee County Chamber of Commerce luncheon featured updates on economic development projects and cross-community collaborations shaping the region. Read more ->
via Shaw Local / Daily Journal
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🎓 Free Training Offers 6 CEUs on Childhood Trauma for Social Workers in Kankakee
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📅 Out & About in Kankakee County
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Monday's quiet by day -- storytimes and a teen craft session -- but it's got teeth after dark. Flag football regionals open at BBCHS, and the Dam Tap is throwing a spooky paint night to kick the week into October mode.
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★ Featured
6:30PM
Spooky Paint Night at the Dam Tap!
The Dam Tap, 597 S. Washington Ave
The Dam Tap, the Washington Avenue bar in Kankakee, is running a guided paint night with a Halloween theme tonight from 6:30 to 9:30. Bring a friend, grab a drink, and leave with a canvas you actually painted yourself.
ARTS
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★ Also Featured
5:00PM
DAY 1 OF 2
Girls V Football - Flag vs IHSA Regionals (BBCHS)
Stadium
Bradley-Bourbonnais Community High School opens IHSA girls flag football regionals tonight at 5pm at the stadium -- day one of a two-day bracket. Come out and see how far the Boilers can go.
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10:00AM
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Cubbies FREE
Kankakee Public Library - 2nd Floor
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Throwback
Sunday's Annual Greek Festival of Kankakee drew a big crowd downtown -- if you missed the gyros and loukoumades, there's always next year. See event
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Plan ahead
Clear part of your Saturday -- Croptoberfest at The Adventure Church in Bourbonnais hits October 10th, right as the fall festival season peaks. See event
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See all 38 events on BradleyIllinois.com →
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📜 Dale's Corner
The Farm Auction
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The farm auction is one of the oldest traditions in farm country, and it's still happening here. Walk past an estate sale sign on a county road in October and you might find three hundred people standing in a pasture bidding on a 1970s tractor, a set of cultivators, a barn full of hand tools, and the furniture from a farmhouse that's been in the same family since 1902. Farm auctions are economic events. They're also social ones. The crowd at a farm auction includes neighbors who knew the family for forty years, dealers who've driven in from Indiana, collectors looking for specific equipment, and young farmers trying to build out an operation without paying new prices for old iron. The auctioneer works fast, calling numbers in a rhythm that sounds almost musical. When an older farm family sells out — the last generation deciding not to pass the operation on — the auction is often the public closing of a chapter. The neighbors who show up aren't all there just to buy. Some of them are there because they remember when the barn was built, when the kids were in 4-H, when the farmer's wife won the pie contest at the county fair in 1978. They're there to witness the end of something. The county's land records go back generations of farmland changing hands. The auctions are where many of those transfers become real. It's agricultural capitalism in its oldest form, and it's still very much alive on a Tuesday morning in October.
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Fall does not rush. It does what it does at its own pace -- the leaves, the air, the long evenings turning shorter. October 5th is as good a Monday as any to take that lesson to heart.
— Dale
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🏛 This Week in Local Government
What your boards just did — and what they take up next.
Three municipal boards met Monday Oct. 5: Bourbonnais VB (5:30 PM — Deputy Village Clerks resolution, Accounts Payable, Executive Session), Kankakee City CC (7 PM — zoning, sewer cleaner, cyber security plan, new firefighters), and Manteno VB (6 PM — B&F Construction PSA reconsideration, fire inspection IGA, Building Inspector appointment). Kankakee County ZBA also met Oct. 5.
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Bourbonnais · Village Board
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MET — OUTCOMES NOT YET POSTED Mon, Oct 5 Agenda →
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Oct. 5 Regular Village Board Meeting occurred (5:30 PM) — Resolution No. 26-1656 (Appointing Deputy Village Clerks), Accounts Payable (General Fund and Special Fund bill… |
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Finance Committee met Sept. 30 (4:00 PM): Police Pension Actuarial Report, KACC SRO discussion, May–July 2026 financial results on agenda — outcomes not yet confirmed. |
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Sept. 21 Village Board outcomes still pending: ORD 26-2562 (PSI Construction Special Use Permit PUD), car rental taxes ORD 26-2563/2564, and Proclamation 26-399 (Village… |
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Bradley · Village Board
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MET — OUTCOMES NOT YET POSTED Mon, Sep 28 Agenda →
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Sept. 28 Village Board: R-09-26-04 (Resolution to accept bid for Sanitary Sewer Cured In Place Pipelining — Basin 4) was on agenda — no minutes posted yet. |
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Executive Session on personnel/collective bargaining and real estate acquisition. |
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Community events: Wag-O-Ween Oct. 3; Halloween Decorating Contest Oct. 1–27. |
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COMING UP — ON THE AGENDA Mon, Oct 12 · 6:30 PM Agenda →
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2nd Monday regular meeting (Oct. 12) — no agenda posted yet |
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Kankakee · City Council
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MET — OUTCOMES NOT YET POSTED Mon, Oct 5 Agenda →
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Oct. 5 City Council meeting occurred (7:00 PM) — zoning: rezone at 1338 E. Chestnut (R-1 to R-2), conditional use permit at 348–354 S. Foley Ave.; new firefighters Philip… |
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Sept. 21 City Council outcomes still pending: SECOND READING ORD amending Ch. |
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COMING UP — ON THE AGENDA Mon, Oct 19 · 7:00 PM Agenda →
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Next regular City Council meeting — Oct. 19 (no agenda posted yet) |
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Manteno · Village Board
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MET — OUTCOMES NOT YET POSTED Mon, Oct 5 Agenda →
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Oct. 5 Regular Village Board Meeting occurred (6:00 PM) — RECONSIDERATION of PSA with B&F Construction Code Services (vetoed by Pres. |
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Sept. 21 outcomes still pending: Chief Rick Peterson fire bureau appointment, IGA for fire inspection services, Jim Paicz Building Inspector appointment, LIUNA CBA… |
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Kankakee County · County Board
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MET — OUTCOMES NOT YET POSTED Mon, Oct 5 Agenda →
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Kankakee County ZBA met Oct. 5 — agenda was posted. Outcomes pending. |
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Waterways Advisory Subcommittee met Oct. 1 — agenda was posted. Outcomes pending. |
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Transportation Committee met Sept. 29 (METRO/SHOW BUS updates, vehicle procurement) — outcomes pending. |
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COMING UP — ON THE AGENDA Tue, Oct 13 · TBD Agenda →
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Full County Board meets Oct. 13 — no agenda posted yet. |
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Board of Review meets Oct. 6 — agenda posted. |
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Regional Planning Commission meets Oct. 15 — agenda posted. |
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Essex · Village Board
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MET — OUTCOMES NOT YET POSTED Thu, Oct 1
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October 1 meeting was CANCELLED — official notice moved the meeting to October 8. |
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September 3 Village Board met — no agenda posted on village website. |
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COMING UP — ON THE AGENDA Thu, Oct 8 · 6:00 PM Agenda →
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Regular meeting October 8 (NOT October 1 — date was officially changed) |
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Snow removal sealed bids for 2026–2027 season will be opened at this meeting (bids due by 5:00 PM Oct. 8) |
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See all board meetings →
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🎓 This Week in Your Schools
School boards and parent groups — decisions made, and what is on deck.
BBCHS SD 307 advanced its superintendent search through a Sept. 28 special meeting (candidate profile development, search firm selection discussion) following firm presentations on Sept. 15 and Dr. Vosberg's resignation on Sept. 14.
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Bourbonnais SD 53 · Board of Education
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MET — OUTCOMES NOT YET POSTED Tue, Sep 22 Agenda →
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FY27 budget hearing (public comment opened) and budget adoption vote (item 7.01) — outcomes not yet confirmed |
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Termination of Dawn Pacheco, employee-at-will, was on consent |
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PRESS Plus 122 policy package on second reading — final adoption expected |
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Bradley SD 61 · School Board
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MET — OUTCOMES NOT YET POSTED Thu, Sep 17 Agenda →
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FY27 budget adoption vote (after 6:45 PM public hearing) — outcome not yet confirmed |
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17 new hires on consent; 5 resignations including Nikki Stump (Executive Administrative Assistant) |
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PRESS Policy Issue 122: 9 policies on second reading, 13 on first reading |
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COMING UP — ON THE AGENDA Fri, Oct 9 · 7:00 AM Agenda →
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Executive Committee, Friday Oct. 9, 7:00 AM — no agenda posted yet |
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Regular Board Meeting: Thursday, Oct. 15, 7:00 PM |
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BBCHS SD 307 · Board of Education
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MET — OUTCOMES NOT YET POSTED Mon, Sep 28 Agenda →
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Special meeting Sept. 28: Superintendent search — candidate profile development and search firm discussion (open session) |
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Closed session under 5 ILCS 120/2(c)(1) for superintendent employment |
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Earlier: Dr. Matt Vosberg resignation accepted on consent (Sept. 14 regular meeting) |
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COMING UP — ON THE AGENDA Tue, Oct 13 · 6:00 PM Agenda →
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Next regular board meeting — Monday, Oct. 13, 6:00 PM |
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No agenda posted yet |
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Kankakee SD 111 · Board of Education
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MET — OUTCOMES NOT YET POSTED Mon, Sep 28 Agenda →
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Sept. 28 regular BOE: Policy 8:20 (Community Use of School Facilities) up for final adoption |
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Sunbelt Staffing LLC virtual school psychologist contract on agenda — credentialed-staff signal |
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Recall of RIF'd employees on consent (G.11); Over the Moon Pediatric Therapy Vision Teacher contract |
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COMING UP — ON THE AGENDA Tue, Oct 13 · 7:00 PM Agenda →
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Next regular BOE meeting — Monday, Oct. 13, 7:00 PM |
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Location: Mark Twain School (confirmed from Sep. 28 agenda calendar notes) |
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Full calendar confirmed: Oct 13, Nov 9, Dec 14, Jan 11 2027 |
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Manteno CUSD 5 · Board of Education
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MET — OUTCOMES NOT YET POSTED Tue, Sep 29 Agenda →
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FY27 budget hearing and adoption vote (Sept. 29) — occurred, outcomes pending signed minutes |
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Illuminate Financial Consultants Agreement — new financial advisor |
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Phone licensing renewal; HS Graduation and Senior Awards Night dates for FY27 |
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COMING UP — ON THE AGENDA Tue, Oct 27 · 6:30 PM Agenda →
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Next regular board meeting — Tuesday, Oct. 27 (NOTE: Manteno meets Tuesdays, not Mondays) |
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Cadence: District publishes specific dates; SKILL.md '4th Monday' rule is incorrect |
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See all school board meetings →
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Prices sourced from GasBuddy and may be inaccurate or out of date — always confirm at the pump.
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