‘Get ready to go to trial'?: Lawyer for Potawatomi denies threat of litigation to force bingo development

City Editor SYCAMORE - DeKalb County officials said this week that they are preparing for the likelihood of litigation by a Kansas-based American Indian tribe that wants to build a bingo parlor on 128 acres it purchased near Shabbona earlier this year. &#8220The attorney for the tribe indicated to us that we should prepare a budget and get ready to go to trial,” County Administrator Ray Bockman said Thursday, recounting a conversation he said he had with Sycamore attorney Jordan Gallagher last week after the county announced it had suspended negotiations with the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation. Attempts to speak directly with Gallagher on Thursday and Friday were not successful, but in a voice mail message he left with the Chronicle Friday