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3/20/2009 12:30 PM Firefighters in Joliet are battling a blaze at the Empress Casino, and officials have evacuated everyone inside. An official at Joliet's city hall said the fire started as a part of the ongoing construction improvements that were taking...
Tags: Joliet Police, Illinois Gaming Board, casino complex, joliet casino
Illinois gambling regulators Thursday elaborated in writing on their decision to pick Des Plaines as the location for the state's 10th casino license, noting that indicted businessman William Cellini still had indirect ties to the rival Waukegan proposal....
Tags: Waukegan, William Cellini, William F. Cellini, Illinois Gaming Board, Cellini Group
The Illinois Gaming Board today awarded the state's remaining casino license to Midwest Gaming LLC, which plans to build in suburban Des Plaines. Midwest beat out competitors looking to locate in Rosemont or Waukegan with an upfront bid of $122.5 million...
Tags: Illinois Gaming Board, Midwest Gaming & Entertainment, Midwest Gaming LLC, casino license, Trilliant Gaming for Rosemont, Waukegan Gaming, Des Plaines
Executives from three gaming companies on Tuesday publicly presented their bids at an Illinois Gaming Board meeting, promising to deliver loads of much-needed tax revenue for the state, money-sharing arrangements that would benefit other communities and...
Tags: Illinois Gaming Board, Rosemont Mayor Bradley Stephens, AM Rosemont
Staff Writer Calumet City is contemplating suing the Illinois Gaming Board about its recent decision to exclude the city from contention for the state's 10th casino license. City attorney Burt Odelson sent a letter to gaming board members last week asking...
If state regulators are concerned about alleged past links between the mob and the village of Rosemont, they apparently got over them Friday, naming it -- along with Des Plaines and Waukegan-- as the three remaining competitors to host the state's 10th...
Tags: Des Plaines, Rosemont, Illinois Gaming Board, Waukegan, 10th casino
Sending coupons, an offer of a free meal and other promotional mailings to problem gamblers. Among those who got the mailers were 146 problem gamblers who signed up for the Illinois Gaming Board's "self-exclusion program," asking to be banned from all...