Kankakee Community Development Agency

Kankakee Community Development Agency, City of Kankakee Economic & Community Development Agency, is a U.S. local government entity (city agency) that receives federal grants as a prime recipient for housing rehabilitation and community development work, with no involvement in federal contracting or subcontracting. The agency is structurally a municipal government entity located at 199 S E Ave, Kankakee, Illinois 60901.

The agency's federal footprint consists entirely of grant receipts from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, concentrated in two programs. The majority of recent award volume—21 of 31 total awards—flows from HUD's Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development under the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Entitlement program (CFDA 14.218), a formula grant that provides annual funding to entitled communities for housing, economic opportunity, and living-environment improvements. The second program is HUD's Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control, which has awarded Kankakee eight project grants under the Lead Hazard Reduction Grant Program (CFDA 14.900) since 2022. The agency also received one award from the Department of Justice Community Oriented Policing Program and one from the Environmental Protection Agency, but these represent minimal recent activity. Combined obligated dollars across all 31 awards total $35.3 million, with the most recent award being a $3.857 million Lead Hazard Reduction project grant awarded on March 16, 2026, running through March 15, 2030.

Lead hazard control work represents Kankakee's most visible recent project capacity. The March 2026 grant funds comprehensive lead-based paint hazard identification and control activities in privately owned rental and owner-occupied housing units in Kankakee, targeting pre-1960 and pre-1940 construction where children under six face greatest lead poisoning risk. The program delivers lead inspections, risk assessments, interim controls, and abatement work focused on low- and very-low-income families in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods, with supplemental activities supporting training and certification of local professionals in lead-safe work practices and development of community-based partnerships integrating lead control with other housing and health initiatives. Earlier Lead Hazard Reduction grants (awarded April 2022, December 2022) follow the same service model. The CDBG formula grants, spanning award dates from September 2021 through October 2024, fund the full range of community development activities—housing, economic opportunity, and neighborhood improvement—that Kankakee's city leadership designates as priority uses under the entitlement formula. The agency operates as a 100% prime recipient with no subcontract activity, and only one award faces ultimate completion within the next twenty-four months, indicating minimal near-term recompete exposure.