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TexasTowelie

(116,927 posts) Thu Jan 26, 2017, 01:31 AM Jan 2017

Illinois Senate considering gambling expansion

An Illinois Senate committee is considering a massive expansion of riverboat casino gambling as part of a legislative package to break a state budget logjam.

The Senate Gaming Committee took testimony Wednesday on the plan permit casinos in Chicago and five other locations. It would OK slot machines at Illinois' remaining horse-racing tracks.

Similar gambling expansion plans got legislative approval but former Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn rejected them. GOP Gov. Bruce Rauner is open to more casinos if communities want them.

Licensing fees would help pay the state's bills. Other revenue would go for education. The land-based Chicago casino's profits would bolster the city's police and fire pension accounts.

Read more: http://www.sj-r.com/news/20170125/illinois-senate-considering-gambling-expansion

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Illinois Senate considering gambling expansion (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2017 OP
We have already reached the gambling saturation point. Snarkoleptic Jan 2017 #1

Snarkoleptic

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1. We have already reached the gambling saturation point.
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Thu Jan 26, 2017, 10:31 AM
Jan 2017

Rauner is seemingly unaware that gas stations, restaurants and storefront micro-casinos are everywhere around Chicago.

The real answer is the green Colorado model. We are surrounded by red states and the revenue will wash in from all sides. Unfortunately, conservative dogma won't allow something that makes this much sense.

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