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Slot Machines in Algonquin
The December report on money lost by patrons on video slot machines has been posted by the Illinois Gaming Board. $37.9 million was lost statewide. Below you can see where people lost how much in...
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Crystal Lake Bars Planning Another Attempt to Get Slot Machines
Twice the Crystal Lake City Council was approached by bar and restaurant owners requesting permission to have slot machines, which they call “video poker machines”, in their establishments. Suds R Us...
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McHenry County Slot Machine Gambling Loses
With the Crystal Lake City Council again being courted by local liquor serving establishments for permission to install slot machines, the Illinois Church Action on Alcohol & Addiction Problems...
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Slots As Funding Source Oversold
From the anti-gambling Illinois Church Action on Alcoholism and Addiction Problems (ICAAA): IDOT director calls for more reliable infrastructure funding Wonder Lake slot machines. Gambling revenues...
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Crystal Lake Opts for 3/5 Pottersville
The name of the alternative town in the 1946 movie, “It’s a Wonderful Life,” is Pottersville. Pottesrville is featured in the alternative universe in which George Bailey did not exist. That’s what...
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Slots in Lakewood – Part 1
While I was on vacation, the Lakewood Village Board was faced with the question of whether to allow slot machines. Trustee Paul Serwatka sent our three emails that seem worth sharing, even though they...
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Paul Serwatka’s second email on the pending vote on allowing slot machines in Lakewood was sent February 14th. It linked to an article in the Northwest Herald about the vote that would be held that...
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Slots in Lakewood – Part 3
On February 15th, the third email about legalizing slot machines in Lakewood was sent out by Trustee Paul Serwatka. It is below: Paul Serwatka Reporting on yesterday’s village board meeting, I’ll get...
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Illinois Senate Doubles Bets on Slots
A typical gas station in South Dakota. Long-time readers will remember my surprise at seeing casinos at virtually every gas station and even in the next room to an in-door McDonald’s in South Dakota....
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Expansion of Slot Machines
Found this paragraph in a Sunday piece by Chicago Sun-Times columnist Mark Brown: In the five years since video gambling in bars and restaurants was legalized in Illinois, the industry has exploded...
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