Category: Illinois

Is Illinois The Only US state To See Real Money Gambling Revenue Increase?

When it comes to sports betting, June is traditionally the slowest month. With NBA, NFL, and NHL in the offseason mode, MLB is the only major sport active and in the full swing right now. Post-sport season slump significantly impacts...

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Gambling Regulators Approve A Plan For A New Casino In Danville, Illinois

Last week, Illinois regulators dealt one of the final cards in the planned casino market expansion that has been going on since 2019. On their Thursday session, they have given a green light for the development of a new casino...

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Rivers Casino Gets Robbed For 40K? Find Out What Happens To The Robber?

Last Tuesday, a man was robbed at gunpoint in the parking garage of the Rivers Casino in Des Plaines, Illinois. The robbery took place in the early morning while the victim was leaving the establishment with around $40,000 in casino...

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Huge Nevada Gambling Operators Won’t to Bet on A Casino In Chicago ?

  The city of Chicago has waited years for its first casino and, as it seems, they’ll have to wait even longer. Right now, the casino development depends on the interest from the country’s big gaming operators. At the moment,...

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New Casino In Chicago Could Bring In Billions In Revenue But It Will Be Costly

The City of Chicago has recently come out with the proposal for the first casino on its grounds. However, they’ve run into some trouble finding a partner who will develop the project. A number of potential developers see the whole...

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Illinois Lobbyist Pushes For Legal Online Casino Gambling

States like New Jersey and Pennsylvania received a boost from online gambling with land-based venues closed this year. The coronavirus shut things down from March into summer. The online casino sites helped to fill the void. These sites also helped...

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Will The Windy City Of Chicago Altering Casino Tax Benefit Gaming Operators?

One of the biggest issues facing real money casinos is revenue tax rates. This is basically the cut a geographic location gets out of the casino proceeds. There is always going to be a state tax. Yet, individually municipalities are...

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Detroit Casinos Like MGM Are Finally Reopen For Business With Safety Protocols

Going back to mid-March, the coronavirus pandemic basically shutdown the US land-based casino industry. Casinos in some states reopened their doors as early as May. Gambling venues in harder hit states did not start back up until July. For three...

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New Mobile App Gives Illinois Online Sports Betting Fans Access Via A Casino Parking Lot

Illinois is one of the newest states with legal online sports betting. However, signup for a mobile betting app has to take place at a land-based casino. Furthermore, this is actually the case in a few other states opening up...

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Detroit’s Greektown Casino Sells for a Cool $1 Billion

Dan Gilbert makes a name for his ventures of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. Additionally, it appears he is buying The Major League Baseball’s Detroit Tigers. The highly successful businessman may have some extra cash on hand for a few other...

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Motor City Slot Machine Jackpot Tops $875K

Big money jackpots on progressive slot machines in Las Vegas are rather common. This is especially true when it comes to IGT’s Wheel of Fortune slot machines, which have yielded some of the biggest progressive slot machine jackpots in the...

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Illinois Slot Machine Provider Gives Away $50,000

Real money gamblers normally have to play slot machines to try and walk away with some cold hard cash. Those cash winnings will normally come out of the coffers of the real money gambling establishments housing those slot machines. In...

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