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Wind Creek Casino Opening Sees Delay, Now Scheduled for 2025

The long-expected Wind Creek Chicago Southland casino won't be opened anytime soon, according to the newest information. Bally's - new competition: It isn't good news for the audience and owners of the casino, but the four Northwest Indiana casinos are satisfied with the delay since they'll continue to operate without new competition for a while.…
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South suburban casino, Chicago Bulls reach partnership deal

Wind Creek Hospitality, which is building the south suburban casino, has announced a partnership with the Chicago Bulls under which the Wind Creek Chicago Southland Casino and Resort will become the team's official casino. Wind Creek and the Bulls said the six-year agreement will include in-game promotions and that fans attending games at the…
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South suburban casino, Chicago Bulls reach partnership deal
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Meet the final two contenders for a south suburban casino

There is a battle happening for a new casino in the south suburbs. The Illinois Gaming Board reviewed proposals from four locations then narrowed them down to two. The combined villages of East Hazel Crest and Homewood and the village of Matteson are in the running. The village presidents had a lot of reasons why their community should be…
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Casino proposals in Waukegan, south suburbs win initial state approval

State regulators on Wednesday chose developers for two new suburban casinos, a decision that comes more than two years after Gov. J.B. Pritzker approved a massive expansion of gambling in Illinois that also included a long-debated but still unrealized Chicago casino. A unanimous vote by the Illinois Gaming Board gives preliminary approval for a…
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Casino proposals in Waukegan, south suburbs win initial state approval
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Illinois Gambling Revenue Tops $1 Billion

Illinois is making headway on rivaling Las Vegas for opportunities to gamble. According to the latest figures from the Illinois Gaming Board, from January through October Illinois has raked in more than $1 billion in gambling revenue, from video gaming, sports wagering and casinos Still, it's a figure less than officials had bet on two-a-half years…
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Illinois Gambling Revenue Tops $1 Billion
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Suburban Leaders React After Homewood/East Hazel Crest Casino Bid Allowed to Move Forward

A joint bid to build a casino in the south suburbs was given preliminary approval on Wednesday, while another suburb saw its hopes of building a new casino dashed by the state gaming board. For more than five years, there's been uncertainty surrounding multiple proposals to build a casino south of the city of Chicago, and on Wednesday it was…
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Suburban Leaders React After Homewood/East Hazel Crest Casino Bid Allowed to Move Forward
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Homewood/East Hazel Crest wins bid for south suburban casino

The Illinois Gaming Board has selected a proposal from the combined villages of East Hazel Crest and Homewood that will likely bring a new casino in the south suburbs. Last month, a WGN Cover Story reported how the bidding war was down to East Hazel Crest/Homewood and Matteson. According to the Chicago Tribune, the decision by state gaming…
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Homewood/East Hazel Crest wins bid for south suburban casino
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Full House Resorts gets Waukegan casino; Wind Creek in line for south suburban license

Two of the most important cards in Illinois' massive gambling expansion have finally been dealt. State regulators on Wednesday named their chosen developers to break ground on a new casino in Waukegan and another straddling the border of south suburban Homewood and East Hazel Crest, ending a selection process that dragged on for more than two years…
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Full House Resorts gets Waukegan casino; Wind Creek in line for south suburban license
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Bid to block Waukegan casino vote denied

A Cook County judge on Tuesday denied a request from a rejected bidder to block state gambling regulators from proceeding with a vote on the license for a long-sought Waukegan casino. In denying Potawatomi Waukegan Casino's request for a temporary restraining order, Circuit Judge Cecilia Horan said she was not convinced the company, owned by…
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Bid to block Waukegan casino vote denied
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South suburban casino hopefuls don’t see proliferation of video gambling hurting their odds of success

While video gambling has proliferated in the south and southwest suburbs, applicants for the sole casino license in the region say they don't see the thousands of machines scattered among bars and restaurants as a threat to their proposed business. They also said their plans already factored in a land-based casino in Chicago, which is now putting…
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South suburban casino hopefuls don’t see proliferation of video gambling hurting their odds of success
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Two didn't squander chances at casino; Cal City, Lynwood flubs lost jackpot?

Well, we didn't get it. A casino. Cal City isn't going to get the casino license targeted for the south suburbs. Neither will Lynwood. That leaves Homewood and Matteson to be the eventual awardee. In June of 2019 the state authorized an expansion of casino licenses to include one in the Southland of Cook County. Calumet City had a solid entry…
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Two didn't squander chances at casino; Cal City, Lynwood flubs lost jackpot?
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Decision may finally be coming on south suburban Illinois casino license

The Illinois Gaming Board is inching closer to selecting three finalists for a single south suburban Cook County casino license - nearly two full years after receiving four applications from interested companies and communities. On Wednesday, the board spent some five hours listening to presentations from each of the casino license applicants, and…
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Planned Chicago integrated resort won’t be developed by a Las Vegas company

The developer of Chicago's first integrated resort won't have a Las Vegas address. Responses to a request for proposals were announced late Friday by the city, the country's third-largest metropolitan area with 9.5 million residents. Five proposals from four different companies were announced. Replies came from: Bally's Corp., which submitted two…
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Planned Chicago integrated resort won’t be developed by a Las Vegas company
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Illinois Gaming Board selects two finalists for Chicago Southland casino

llinois officials have narrowed the number of proposals for a new casino in Chicago's south suburbs to just two. One of the bids would see the creation of a venue near the border of Homewood and East Hazel Crest, proposed by Alabama-based Wind Creek Hospitality; while the second one would locate it in Matteson, pitched by Hinsdale businessman Rob…
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Calumet City, Lynwood eliminated from competition for south suburban casino

The Illinois Gaming Board unanimously agreed Wednesday to eliminate the Calumet City and Lynwood casino proposals from the competition for a south suburban Cook County gaming license. The board's decision leaves the casino development plans for Homewood and Matteson as the two finalists in the long-running effort to bring casino gambling to the…
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Ho-Chunk Nation 1 of 4 contenders for new casino in south Chicago suburbs

The Ho-Chunk Nation, which has six casinos in Wisconsin, is one of four contenders for a new casino that has been approved for the south Chicago suburbs. The Illinois Gaming Board put off a decision Wednesday on narrowing the field of four applicants to three after spending hours hearing presentations from the contenders. Following a closed-door…
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Ho-Chunk Nation 1 of 4 contenders for new casino in south Chicago suburbs
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Indiana The Talk Of Southland Cook County Casino License Applicants

About the only thing missing from presentations Wednesday by the four applicants for a casino license in Southland Cook County was the declaration of the childhood phrase, "One, two, three, four, I declare a border war!" The promise to keep gaming tax revenue dollars in Illinois and out of Indiana while building communities was a prevailing theme…
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Illinois Gaming Board delays decision eliminating one south suburban casino contender

Illinois gaming regulators put off a decision Wednesday on narrowing the field of four applicants for a south suburban casino to three, after spending hours hearing presentations from the contenders. Following a closed-door session, Marcus Fruchter, the gaming board's administrator, said that decision could come up for a vote at the board's Oct. 20…
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Illinois Gaming Board delays decision eliminating one south suburban casino contender
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Bo Jackson joins investment group looking to open Calumet City casino

He knows football. He knows baseball. But does Bo know casinos? Two-sport pro legend Bo Jackson is trying his hand at the gambling game with a stake in a development group vying for a license to open a new casino in Chicago's south suburbs. The Heisman-winning running back and former White Sox slugger - and the face of one of Nike's most famous…
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Bo Jackson joins investment group looking to open Calumet City casino
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Churchill Downs withdraws Waukegan casino application after announcing Arlington Park sale to Bears

One of the state's most influential gambling companies withdrew its bid to win the right to open a new casino in Waukegan just hours after it announced it would sell Arlington International Racecourse to the Chicago Bears, officials said Thursday. Churchill Downs Inc. confirmed the flashy $197.2 million agreement with the Bears Wednesday morning, a…
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Churchill Downs withdraws Waukegan casino application after announcing Arlington Park sale to Bears
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Bidders for Waukegan, south suburban casinos to make public presentations Oct. 13

Bidders for two new suburban casinos will get one last chance to put their best hands together next month in hopes of landing the lucrative, long-sought gambling licenses. More than two years after casinos were authorized for Waukegan and the south suburbs as part of a sprawling gaming expansion, state regulators on Thursday laid out the clearest…
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Bidders for Waukegan, south suburban casinos to make public presentations Oct. 13
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