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Illinois Is Poised to Become the Gambling Capital of the Midwest

Like the previous gambling expansion in 2009 in 2009, a new larg e-scale proposal could cause problems.

Propublica Illinois, Dan Mihalo Pros (WBEZ CHICAGO)

June 4, 2019 4:00 am (Japan time)

A man who plays a video game car in a hack truck park waiting room in Mount Bernon, Illinois. With the expansion of the brand new gambling in Illinois, bars, restaurants, fraternity groups, and game parlors are allowed to own six machines compared to five. In the track stop, 10 are allowed. (For Whitney Curtis, for Propabrica, Illinois)

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If the 816 pages submitted at the General Assembly on the weekend and generally accepted, Illinois will be a gambling city in Moscow in the Midwest.

The bill legalizes sports gambling, approves the invention of six new casinos that cover one of Chicago, increases the number of video game consoles and the maximum fare, and turns the state cover to RASINO. It is possible for three people to have a place, detect the staff, and permit two or more.

The number of "places" of gambling sponsored by the state-the space for a casino, stick or Hippodrome is increased from almost 44. 000 to almost 80. 000. Outline of gambling statistics.

For two years in Illinois, there are more than 7 gambling videos. 000 Sports Betting Kiosk, lottery, 16 casinos, 5 hippos, online games for sports, and millions of mobile phones. In particular, this bill allows you to install video slots and poker machines at each airport in Chicago, Ohala, and Midway.

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According to a recent Moodies Investors Service report, Illinois has the lowest credit rating in the United States. The first is New Jersey. The members are betting on the significant expansion of the Gambling Business to break out Illinois from the financial recession and contribute greatly to a $ 45 billion construction campaign under the name of Illinois State.

It will take years to judge whether this historic bet is justified. However, if the past results are at least hints, the results are likely to be far from what the members have promised.

In the Great recession in 2009, the Illinois Congress took the same bet. Since the Lottery was founded in 1974, lawmakers proposed video game law, which is the largest gambling activity in the state, in less than 48 hours. The members of the Diet have said that video games will bring $ 300 million a year and will provide funds to another construction plan called "Illinois Workspace Now"! In less than a few months, the state began borrowing hundreds of millions of dollars, with more than $ 10 billion new debt.

According to a survey by Propublica Illinois-WBEZ, a video gambling took nearly a decade to produce expected profits, worsening state funding. The members of the Diet still overlooked the funds for regulations and public costs. During this time, some video game carriers had a lot of benefits, but in fact, this state was one of the lowest states in the United States in the United States.

"It is unfortunate that sports gambling and casinos are expanding rapidly without social verification of their abilities and results. A bad result, "the government's supervisor Civic Federation, Lawrence Mall," said Lawrence Mall.

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In the latest gaming expansion proposal expected by Governor J. B. Pritzker within a few weeks, the General Assembly responded on some of the issues proposed by the "Bad Bet" survey on Sunday.

Despite the lobby activities aimed at preventing the price increase of video game consoles, members of parliament raised a 3 % price from July 1st, and a year later increased by 1 %. The current tax rate is 30 %, of which 25 % are state and 5 % are local governments. With the tax increase, Illinois gambling tax rates are higher than Louisiana. However, in Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and West Virginia, gambling tax rates are more than 50 %.

Last week's Ppublica Illinois-WBEZ materials revealed that some of the leading members and their families have a financial relationship with the video game industry, most of the members of the Diet voted on the gambling business expansion bill. I refrained.

Prior to the Sunday midnight vote, Brady, a minority legislide chairman of Breminton, told his colleagues that there was a conflict of interest and would not vote on the bill. He also announced that he would not participate in private negotiations and passed the bill. Senator Thomas Karaton (Democratic Party), selected by Villa Park, a trading agent of a video game company, has been voting.

However, Senator Antonio Mugnos, a member of the Democratic Senator who is a member of the Democratic Party of Chicago and assistant leader of the majority, is his son, a transaction agent of a video game business led by former Democratic Senator Michael Bond. Nevertheless, he presided over the session and agreed to pass the expansion bill. Senior Mugnos, in response, has issued a statement that does not directly show the participation in the poll.

"I'm proud of my son," said Mugnos. "He is a 3 1-yea r-old wa r-returned soldier, a disabled person of the Marine Corps, a gunner in Afghanistan, as a result of a pos t-traumatic stress disorder."

When the video game law was passed in 2009, the members of the Diet have significantly increased the work of the Illinois Gambling Council, but did not provide additional funds to implement the law by Propublica Illinois and WBEZ. It was revealed. This time, the members of the Diet have increased the budget of gambling by $ 8 million, and allocated additional funds of $ 20 million to respond to the increased council's portfolio, such as sports gambling, six new casinos, and Hipodrome. < SPAN> Despite the lobby activities aimed at preventing the price increase of video game consoles, members of the Diet raised a 3 % price from July 1st, and a year later increased by 1 %. The current tax rate is 30 %, of which 25 % are state and 5 % are local governments. With the tax increase, Illinois gambling tax rates are higher than Louisiana. However, in Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and West Virginia, gambling tax rates are more than 50 %.

Last week's Ppublica Illinois-WBEZ materials revealed that some of the leading members and their families have a financial relationship with the video game industry, most of the members of the Diet voted on the gambling business expansion bill. I refrained.

Prior to the Sunday midnight vote, Brady, a minority legislide chairman of Breminton, told his colleagues that there was a conflict of interest and would not vote on the bill. He also announced that he would not participate in private negotiations and passed the bill. Senator Thomas Karaton (Democratic Party), selected by Villa Park, a trading agent of a video game company, has been voting.

However, Senator Antonio Mugnos, a member of the Democratic Senator who is a member of the Democratic Party of Chicago and assistant leader of the majority, is his son, a transaction agent of a video game business led by former Democratic Senator Michael Bond. Nevertheless, he presided over the session and agreed to pass the expansion bill. Senior Mugnos, in response, has issued a statement that does not directly show the participation in the poll.

"I'm proud of my son," said Mugnos. "He is a 3 1-yea r-old wa r-returned soldier, a disabled person of the Marine Corps, a gunner in Afghanistan, as a result of a pos t-traumatic stress disorder."

When the video game law was passed in 2009, the members of the Diet have significantly increased the work of the Illinois Gambling Council, but did not provide additional funds to implement the law by Propublica Illinois and WBEZ. It was revealed. This time, the members of the Diet have increased the budget of gambling by $ 8 million, and allocated additional funds of $ 20 million to respond to the increased council's portfolio, such as sports gambling, six new casinos, and Hipodrome. Despite the lobby activities aimed at preventing the price increase of video game consoles, members of parliament raised a 3 % price from July 1st, and a year later increased by 1 %. The current tax rate is 30 %, of which 25 % are state and 5 % are local governments. With the tax increase, Illinois gambling tax rates are higher than Louisiana. However, in Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and West Virginia, gambling tax rates are more than 50 %.

Last week's Ppublica Illinois-WBEZ materials revealed that some of the leading members and their families have a financial relationship with the video game industry, most of the members of the Diet voted on the gambling business expansion bill. I refrained.

Prior to the Sunday midnight vote, Brady, a minority legislide chairman of Breminton, told his colleagues that there was a conflict of interest and would not vote on the bill. He also announced that he would not participate in private negotiations and passed the bill. Senator Thomas Karaton (Democratic Party), selected by Villa Park, a trading agent of a video game company, has been voting.

However, Senator Antonio Mugnos, a member of the Democratic Senator who is a member of the Democratic Party of Chicago and assistant leader of the majority, is his son, a transaction agent of a video game business led by former Democratic Senator Michael Bond. Nevertheless, he presided over the session and agreed to pass the expansion bill. Senior Mugnos, in response, has issued a statement that does not directly show the participation in the poll.

"I'm proud of my son," said Mugnos. "He is a 3 1-yea r-old wa r-returned soldier, a disabled person of the Marine Corps, a gunner in Afghanistan, as a result of a pos t-traumatic stress disorder."

When the video game law was passed in 2009, the members of the Diet have significantly increased the work of the Illinois Gambling Council, but did not provide additional funds to implement the law by Propublica Illinois and WBEZ. It was revealed. This time, the members of the Diet have increased the budget of gambling by $ 8 million, and allocated additional $ 20 million to support the increase in the number of ports of the council, such as sports gambling, six new casinos, and Hipodrome.

The members have also established the most colorful council. The global bills include items that give the Gaming Council a wide range of authority to close their own meetings, in accordance with the Public Conference Law. In recent two trials, arbitrators concluded that the council had illegally held private meetings and did not comply with the Public Conference Law. Propublica Illinois subsequently filed a lawsuit because one recording of these meetings was rejected. This lawsuit is under dispute.

The members of the Diet quickly increased the necessary amounts assigned to gambling addiction measures. This year, Propublica Illinois and WBEZ pointed out that Illinois was the lowest in providing funds to addiction related proposals, 28th in 40 states. Unlike many other states where gambling has been legalized, Illinois has never established a gambling addiction rate. Experts believe that the US Psychiatric Association is an important first step in fighting gambling addiction, which is currently regarded as the same disease as drugs and alcoholism.

According to a new budget passed this weekend, the General Assembly increased the budget for gambling addiction from $ 800, 000 to $ 6. 8 million per year.

Gambling activity expansion proposals also include Sportsbetting's sel f-exclusion program, and gamblin g-addicted patients with problematic gambling can be forbidden to bet on games. The state also has a similar program for casinos. However, there is no sel f-exclusion list for nearly 7, 000 video gambling facilities.

The addiction advisor welcomes the budget increase, but is afraid of the global gambling industry. According to research, the more accidents of games, the higher the level of addiction. Also, if all the game functions proposed as part of the expansion are realized, the number and types of gambling opportunities in Illinois will be as good as anywhere.

"Healing Center in Mewood, Way Back Inn's executive director, Anita Pindia, said," This is a significant increase in funding. But "this is a larg e-scale expansion, it does not progress slowly. It will be very slow to affect people.

JB Pritzer Illinois Governor (Abel Uribe/Chicago Tribune/TNS Via Getty Images)

In a statement published after the lower house has passed the bill on Saturday, Pritzker calls this voting as an outline of his legislative program, and according to his text, open the labor market and Illinois. The state enhances the competitiveness with the nearby state and provides indispensable income to the struggling districts.

"Today is the victory of the whole state," he said.

However, before the members confirmed a new gambling room of about 23. 000, Illinois Propabrica and WBEZ have confirmed that video gambling has been reduced in casino profits. From 2013 to 2017, Casino revenues in Illinois decreased by 15 % to $ 393 million, but video games increased by about $ 300 million to $ 300 million. What you did is shown in the data.

In the state enlargement method, the maximum number of casino slots increases to 2. 000. However, among the 10 casinos in the state, only two locations have reached the current upper limit of 1, 200, and it is questioned whether it has reached saturation. Three of them are less than 1, 000 units.

This is one of the reasons the Illinois Gaming Connection opposed the state expansion bill. AR members have approved a bill to invest millions of dollars in new physical facilities and have approved a bill to allow 10 riverfront casinos, but they are unlikely to agree with it.

"This is a bill to increase the number of gamblers, but not a bill to increase gamblers. 。

According to recent reports of the US Gaming Association, Illinois is one of the four states where consumption spending at casinos has decreased from 2016 to 2017.

However, Lolita Lightfoot, who was elected to the general meeting, Pritzker, and the new mayor of Chicago, was built by 2023 by 2023 by building a mega casino accommodating 4. 00 people in downtown Chicago. Eliminating a large amount of pension debt expected to increase $ 2 billion from the dollar.

There is no doubt that a casino in Chicago will attract tourists, but there are tens of thousands of video slots and poker machines in the suburbs, which will compete for local players.

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"These profits will not come soon enough to make a big difference in the current finances of the city of Chicago and the upcoming expansion of the $1 billion pension finance," says Missoula.

More than that, the study actually shows that gambling profits are closely linked to the overall economy. In recent years, gambling profits have increased significantly in Illinois. But this happened against the backdrop of the First World War, a financial giant in American affairs, and a time when thousands of gaming videos were distributed throughout the state.

During the 2008 cash slump, as in the state, video-recorders were in the spotlight, casino-profits quickly declined. As a result, experts are warning state and district authorities to rely on gambling profits to finance borrowings or cover current costs such as pension payments.