If your county or community isn't on the first list, get cracking. Call your local council members, your county board solons, anybody and everybody who can get your jurisdiction to opt out, too. The list of opt-out local governments now stands at 50, according to the Illinois Gaming Board.
recognize video gambling for just what it is: a fine way to pack low-rent bars and then separate moderate-income people from what limited resources their families still have.
These are the 50 governments the Gaming Board says have banned video gambling:
Cook County, DuPage County, Kane County, Lake County, Addison, Batavia, Beach Park, Burbank, Burr Ridge, Bloomingdale, Buffalo Grove, Carbondale, Carol Stream, Country Club Hills, Darien, East Dundee, Elburn, Elmhurst, Evanston, Glen Ellyn, Glenview, Hanover Park, Hawthorn Woods, Highland Park, Itasca, Kildeer, La Grange, Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, Libertyville, Lincolnwood, Lisle, Mettawa, Mount Prospect, Naperville, Northbrook, Oak Park, Oakbrook Terrace, Orland Park, Palos Heights, Rochester, Rosemont, Schiller Park, South Holland, Villa Park, Wayne, West Chicago, Wheaton, Wilmette, WinfieldThe Gaming Board says these 14 governments are considering bans:
Kendall County, McHenry County, Peoria County, Will County, Arlington Heights, Campton Hills, Deerfield, Elgin, Gurnee, Lindenhurst, Oswego, Park Ridge, West Dundee, Winnetka.
Click on the following to read the entire editorial: Video poker? Not here. -- chicagotribune.com
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No more Lottery or Horse Race Betting or football fantasy betting.
All are the Devil's tools
and Casinos and Bingo -that is how he gets us.
Drinking, gambling, sex outside of Holy Matrimony all must go in our town.
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