The nine riverboats in Illinois have known better times. While grossing billions of dollars in the past, they now begin to curb their assets and lick their wounds. Over 245 million people have visited the Illionis casinos, leaving behind $16 billion at the roulette wheels, blackjack and slot machines since its inception in 1991. Recently, these casinos have been embraced by drastic financial dearth, as a result of paying the nation’s highest casino taxes and having a slope in attendance.
At the same time, Illinois legislators are considering the option of gambling deployment to Chicago, and anti-gambling individuals are voicing their opposition more loudly than ever. The riverboat owners, on the other hand, beware that should the state freeze the process of tax lowering, the consequences might be far more detrimental than they envisioned.
Don Sandidge, mayor of Alton Belle, Illinois first riverboat casino resort, maintained that the expansion of boat games such as roulette and blackjack would not see the light if the state will keep pursuing the 70 percent tax plan.
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