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Bally's gets Gaming Board approval to open temporary casino

After years of planning, months of renovations and several days of monitored practice sessions, Bally's Chicago got the green light Friday from the Illinois Gaming Board to launch the city's long-sought first casino. Medinah Temple in River North opened this weekend, welcoming gamblers to try their luck at an ornate temporary facility that is…
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Bally's gets Gaming Board approval to open temporary casino
Chicago Sun Times

Illinois Gaming Board gives early approval to Bally’s Chicago casino

All bets could be on in Chicago by the end of summer. State regulators on Thursday handed down a key early approval to Bally's Chicago casino plan, paving the way for the corporation to launch a temporary gambling house within a couple of months at the historic Medinah Temple in River North while it builds the permanent structure in River West. The…
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Illinois Gaming Board gives early approval to Bally’s Chicago casino
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Our Quad Cities

Rock Island agrees to reimburse $4.7M in casino plan

Bally's Casino and Hotel, Rock Island, is planning a $34-million redevelopment, and the city is placing its bets to reimburse a good chunk of that. The former Jumer's Casino and Hotel (bought by Bally's in 2021), at Illinois 92 and I-280, is the oldest of the three Quad Cities casinos, having opened in 2008 and is lagging in market share, said…
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Rock Island agrees to reimburse $4.7M in casino plan
Chicago Tribune

Chicago casino: Bally's closes Freedom Center deal for $200M

Bally's completed its $200 million purchase of the Freedom Center printing plant Friday, paving the way to build Chicago's long-sought and much-debated casino. The Rhode Island-based company bought the 30-acre River West site from Nexstar Media Group, with plans to transform it into a $1.74 billion casino complex. What becomes of the Chicago…
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Chicago casino: Bally's closes Freedom Center deal for $200M
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Bally’s files application with state for first Chicago casino

Bally's filed its application with the Illinois Gaming Board on Wednesday, taking a major step in the process to build Chicago's first casino and the flagship property for its fast-growing company. The application was posted on the gaming board website Thursday morning. The clock is now running for the publicly traded Rhode Island-based company to…
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Bally’s files application with state for first Chicago casino
Chicago Sun Times

Bally’s files Illinois Gaming Board application for Chicago casino

State gambling regulators now hold the cards in Chicago's casino game. Bally's Corporation on Wednesday filed its application with the Illinois Gaming Board seeking approval of its plan for a $1.7 billion riverfront casino-resort at Chicago Avenue and Halsted Street. It's the latest step toward breaking ground on the massive entertainment complex…
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Bally’s files Illinois Gaming Board application for Chicago casino
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City Council endorses Bally's $1.7 billion Chicago casino plan

The Chicago City Council overwhelmingly agreed Wednesday to support a plan by Rhode Island-based Bally's Corp. to construct and operate a $1.7 billion casino, hotel and entertainment facility northwest of the Loop, near the southern tip of Goose Island. The Democratic-controlled council voted 41-7 to endorse Mayor Lori Lightfoot's recommendation…
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City Council endorses Bally's $1.7 billion Chicago casino plan
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Bally Stock: Chicago Casino Win Could Be Okay (NYSE:BALY)

Were this forty years ago, news of a casino operator winning a bid for developing a property inside or near a major metro area would be enough to send its stock skyrocketing beyond any rational measure of its real world potential. This is precisely what happened when the sector exploded after New Jersey legalized casinos in 1976. First out of the…
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Bally Stock: Chicago Casino Win Could Be Okay (NYSE:BALY)
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Bally’s Quad Cities casino slot machines now open 24/7

Bally's Quad Cities in Illinois, rebranded last month from Jumer's Casino and Hotel, is officially opening its casino slot machines 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as of October 1. As of Friday, October 1, Bally's Quad Cities in Rock Island, Illinois is officially opening its casino slot machines 24 hours a day, seven days a week, including new…
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Bally’s Quad Cities casino slot machines now open 24/7
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GLPI completes acquisition of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Live! casino properties

The double purchase formed part of a wider deal agreed in December last year, which also included the acquisition of the Live! Casino & Hotel Maryland, though this purchase is yet to complete. GLPI funded the two acquisitions by assuming $423.0m in debt, which has already been repaid, and by issuing approximately $137.0m of operating partnership…
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GLPI completes acquisition of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh Live! casino properties
Chicago Tribune

Chicago has five competing casino bids. Here’s what’s proposed.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot is looking at five proposals from three firms vying to run Chicago's casino. Now it's almost time for her to show her hand. City officials are sifting through the bids, including one from Hard Rock International that would set the gambling emporium in a massive mixed-use project, One Central, which developers hope to…
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Chicago has five competing casino bids. Here’s what’s proposed.
Chicago Sun Times

Lightfoot sets aggressive timetable for forging ahead on Chicago casino

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Friday she is "very excited" by the five "well thought out" bids she was dealt last week for a Chicago casino and plans to send a "final list to recommend" to the Illinois Gaming Board "sometime in the first quarter" of next year. With police and fire pension funds hovering dangerously close to insolvency and mounting…
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Lightfoot sets aggressive timetable for forging ahead on Chicago casino
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City of Chicago Receives Five Bids For Downtown Casino License

As poker hands go, the city of Chicago was dealt a promising opener for suitors to build a downtown casino: two pairs and a wild card. The city announced Friday it had received five bids in response to its Request for Proposals (RFP) issued in April. The deadline was originally established in August, but extended earlier in the summer to allow…
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City of Chicago Receives Five Bids For Downtown Casino License
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Five bids submitted for Chicago casino, from Hard Rock, Bally’s and Rush Street Gaming

Mayor Lori Lightfoot's Chicago casino game will be five-card draw. Lightfoot's office on Friday announced the city received five proposals from a total of four development groups looking to build and operate the big-city mega-casino that city officials have been trying to land for decades. After pushing back the original summer bidding deadline - a…
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Five bids submitted for Chicago casino, from Hard Rock, Bally’s and Rush Street Gaming
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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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Are Slot Machines Legal in Chicago?

The gambling landscape in Illinois is interesting. The state is dotted with 10 riverboat casinos, 2 commercial casino proposals, and video gaming terminals (VLTs) in locally approved small business locations throughout the state. With the age of statutory gambling fluctuating (18 for bingo, lottery and Paris mutual gambling, 21 for poker rooms and…
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Bally’s Quad Cities casino slot machines to be available 24/7

Bally's Quad Cities in Rock Island is officially opening its casino slot machines 24 hours a day, seven days a week, starting Friday, Oct. 1, 2021, including new slots. "Under our new Bally's ownership and brand, we are excited to be able to expand our gaming times and offerings to our guests. After constricting hours and capacities during the…
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Bally’s Quad Cities casino slot machines to be available 24/7
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Jumer’s Casino & Hotel converts to Bally’s Quad Cities

Forty-eight years after the Jumer's name first made its mark in the Quad Cities, it's disappearing - as Bally's Corporation Tuesday officially kicked off its rebranding of Jumer's Casino & Hotel in Rock Island by changing the property's name to Bally's Quad Cities Casino & Hotel. Three months after the company bought the 13-year-old casino and…
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Jumer’s Casino & Hotel converts to Bally’s Quad Cities
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Jumer’s Casino & Hotel gets new name

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (KWQC) - Jumer's Casino & Hotel has a new name. Bally's Corporation said in a media release Tuesday that it will now be known as Bally's Quad Cities Casino & Hotel, 777 Bally Blvd. The property-wide rebrand, which Bally expects to complete by the first half of 2022, will include new exterior signage, Bally's dice, cards, gaming…
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Jumer’s Casino & Hotel gets new name
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Politicians' next pension 'fix': Gambling with your money

Imagine a husband going to his wife with a grand scheme to get his family out of the financial trouble they're in. Out-of-control spending and too much debt has made a mess of their lives, and his wife has been asking him for years to scale down spending and cut back excesses. Unfortunately, that's never happened, and now, things are…
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Casino Op Bally’s Acquires AVP to Gamify Beach Volleyball

Casino and online gambling operator Bally's Corporation on Tuesday announced that it has bought the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) in the latest manifestation of an ongoing acquisition spree. AVP is the premier professional beach volleyball organization in the United States. It hosts the nation's longest-running domestic beach…
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Casino Op Bally’s Acquires AVP to Gamify Beach Volleyball
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Bally's buys Jumer's Casino in Rock Island

Jumer's Casino and Hotel in Rock Island has been sold to Bally's Corporation for $120 million. The transaction closed on Monday. Jumer's parent company Delaware North Companies Gaming & Entertainment, Inc., initiated the sale last fall with Twin River Worldwide Holdings Inc., which changed its name to Bally's Corporation in November. "As the latest…
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Bally's buys Jumer's Casino in Rock Island
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Rhythm City Casino Resort provides glimpse of what’s to come in Grand Island

DAVENPORT, Iowa - Rhythm City Casino Resort has many of the same features that are likely to be found at the Grand Island Casino Resort at Fonner Park. The properties share the same owner - Elite Casino Resorts. Rhythm City Casino Resort, which is five years old, is right next to Interstate 80 and also close to Interstate 74 at Davenport, Iowa. On…
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Rhythm City Casino Resort provides glimpse of what’s to come in Grand Island
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Jumer’s Casino and Hotel bought by Bally’s Corporation

American land-based casino operator Bally's Corporation has announced the completion of a deal inked in October that has seen it purchase the Jumer's Casino and Hotel facility in western Illinois for $120 million. The Providence-headquartered firm used an official Monday press release to detail that the 205-room venue was previously owned…
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Jumer’s Casino and Hotel bought by Bally’s Corporation
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Dover Downs owner Bally's engineers sale-leaseback of Delaware property's real estate

Dover Downs owner Bally'sCorporation has a lot on its plate these days, including a recent deal that offloads the Delaware casino's real estate. Gaming and Leisure Properties is buying the real estate associated withBally'sDover Downs casino for$144 million. The company will lease lease the property back toBally'sfor$12 millionper year, subject to…
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Dover Downs owner Bally's engineers sale-leaseback of Delaware property's real estate
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Tropicana Las Vegas owner reports solid first-quarter results

The 48 resort properties owned by Wyomissing, Pennsylvania-based Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc. are open and by next year more properties will be in the mix. Executives with GLPI, a gaming-focused real-estate investment trust affiliated with Penn National Gaming that is expected to become the new owner of the Tropicana on the Las Vegas Strip,…
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Tropicana Las Vegas owner reports solid first-quarter results
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Bally’s to open casino near Penn State’s main campus

Casinos across Pennsylvania reopened on Monday morning after a three week closure ordered by Gov. Tom Wolf due to COVID-19. But, that wasn't the only big news for Pennsylvania casinos on Monday morning. Bally's announced it will be building a $120 million mini-casino near Penn State University. The company said that it has signed a framework…
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Bally’s to open casino near Penn State’s main campus