Banned by City Hall for lying on construction contracts, still getting government work

Joel Kennedy Constructing Corp. was banned by Chicago City Hall from getting city work but has continued to get work from other government agencies, including this job for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago along the Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park in Skokie. (Pat Nabong / Sun-Times)

It’s been more than two years since the city of Chicago banned a Waukegan contractor from ever again being allowed to get or work on any city contracts.

That followed a City Hall investigation that found Joel Kennedy’s Joel Kennedy Constructing Corp. falsified records to make it appear it was meeting a requirement to have Chicago residents do at least half of the work on sewer projects.