The filing lists the group’s highest paid officers and their compensation:

• $862,055 for Executive Director Robbin Cohen. That includes a $300,000 bonus in 2017. She was not paid by the foundation in 2014, its first year. Her base salary is $662,055.
• $614,636 for CEO David Simas
• $378,519 for Chief Digital Officer Glenn Brown
• $292,044 for Civic Engagement Vice President Michael Strautmanis
• $256,903 for Chief Development (fundraising) Officer Jordan Kaplan

Comment: Lisle’s average residential property tax rates average 2.8%, but these authors think residents are wrong to push a referendum to cut that rate.

Single family home prices for the nation gained 6.0% from last year, which is down from a 6.2% appreciation rate last month. But, once again, Chicago area single family home prices lagged the rest of the nation with a mere 3.0% appreciation, down from 3.3% last month. And Chicago condo prices fared even worse.

Comment: Look at these salaries. All while the foundation soaks Illinois and federal taxpayers to subsidize its shrine being built on invaluable parkland given to it for free:

According to the records, in his first year overseeing the foundation, CEO David Simas earned $590,651. His salary is nearly twice what the CEO of the George W. Bush Foundation earned in 2016, the last year available.

The executive director of the foundation, Robbin Cohen, earned $827,834 last year, the documents show. Cohen has worked for the foundation since it was founded and worked for free the first year.