<p>A former Chicago Housing Authority director and the president of a local construction company face charges for allegedly paying and receiving bribes in exchange for construction work with the city.</p><p>Ryan Ross, a former senior director of asset management for CHA, is accused of taking $421,000 in kickbacks from Vanessa Rhodes, president of Bell’s Better Buildings, Inc., a Chicago company operating as Twenty Eleven Construction, Inc., according to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois.</p><p>The kickbacks were allegedly in exchange for sending the company more than $4.8 million in construction and renovation work at CHA properties between 2023 and 2024, according to prosecutors.</p><p>Ross, a 50-year-old Bolingbrook resident, and Rhodes, a 47-year-old Chicago resident, both face eight counts of honest services fraud, prosecutors said. Each is punishable by up to 20 years in federal prison.</p><p>Rhodes declined to comment Tuesday when reached by phone.