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Following the lead of many of its Northwest suburban neighbors like Arlington Heights, Mount Prospect and Wheeling, Rolling Meadows is set to ban electronic sweepstakes machines, which officials say resemble video gambling. Without discussion, aldermen this week...

In the moments before it was to be called for a vote, state lawmakers put the brakes on a change to Illinois’ gambling tax rates that would have delivered Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot a big win. A spokesman for Senate President John Cullerton said late Wednesday that...

One decade after DuPage became the first county in Illinois to ban video gambling, the county board has repealed the prohibition. The board voted 11-6 on Tuesday to lift the ban after a discussion about how it has affected more than two dozen liquor license holders,...

SPRINGFIELD — With Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s legislative wish list still up in the air, the mayor took questions from a packed House Democratic caucus Tuesday — reminding them a Chicago casino “benefits the entire state.” It was a rare — and largely symbolic visit — to...

Less than a week after the Illinois Gaming Board attempted to stop video gambling operators from selling their businesses without state approval, a panel of lawmakers in Springfield blocked the move. The General Assembly’s Joint Committee on Administrative Rules voted...

More Illinois communities have turned to video gambling machines as a way to generate revenue. In six years, the number of Illinois communities banning video gaming has fallen from 63 percent to 36 percent. Nowhere in Illinois may the divide between video gaming...

JEFFERSON CITY — The same clout-heavy company installing unregulated and potentially illegal gambling terminals across Missouri has placed an estimated 52 machines within the borders of St. Louis. According to a review by the Post-Dispatch, St. Louis License Collector...

State gambling regulators expect to release license applications for potential sports betting operators next month, marking the first step toward launching the newly legalized industry in Illinois. Illinois Gaming Board administrator Marcus Fruchter announced Thursday...

State lawmakers have worked over the past decade to bring various forms of gambling out of the shadows and onto the tax rolls, from legalizing video poker at bars and restaurants in 2009 to authorizing sports betting this spring. But the latest turn in a sprawling...

BATAVIA – Video gambling has become big business in Batavia. In the first nine months of this year, the 35 machines at seven Batavia locations generated a net income of slightly more than $1.2 million, according to a report from the Illinois Gaming Board. The Batavia...

MARION,IL — A new gambling addiction treatment resource is coming to southern Illinois. With Illinois expanding gaming services and plans for a new casino underway, Centerstone has started offering a treatment for gambling addictions. Gaming machines are all over...

SPRINGFIELD — For all the talk of a quiet veto session, Illinois lawmakers on Tuesday were abuzz with rumblings about a wired senator and a state representative hit with a federal bribery charge — with very little action expected this week to advance a Chicago casino....