The Windy City suburban area of Evanston this hebdomad moved finisher to allowing video gaming terminals (VGTs) within restaurants and bars after a local governmental citizens committee signed cancelled on a cypher qualifying to countenance the slot-like machines.

On Monday, the City of Evanston’s Human Services Committee sanctioned a modification to the regularization of play inwards the City Code. The amendment was proposed by urban center Alder Devon Reid (8th Ward), whose district is closest to downtown Windy City inwards Evanston’s to the highest degree southern section.

Evanston’s City Code 9-5-8 prohibits local eateries and watering holes from participating inward the IL Video Gaming Act. Passed inward 2012, that law of nature allowed cities and municipalities to find whether to grant VGT gaming in their jurisdictions. Reid had asked the Evanston Human Services Committee to amend 9-5-8 to allow the gaming machines.

The committee narrowly ripe the measure past a 3-2 vote. Evanston is nigh 10 miles northerly of the Windy City on Lake Michigan. The metropolis is topper known for existence the rest home of Northwestern University, a common soldier university with more than 23,000 students.

Illinois Gaming Expansion

Illinois’ 2012 Video Gaming Act allows such gaming terminals inward cities and municipalities where local officials permit them. Each restaurant/bar location is allowed upward to half-dozen VGTs, and the revenue is shared 'tween Phoebe entities.

The innkeeper ecesis and depot manipulator keep to the highest degree of the gaming revenue, with around 65% of the proceeds split up 'tween those II parties. The res publica receives 29% of the VGT revenue, and the boniface municipality gets 5%. The remaining 0.8% goes to the Land of Lincoln Gaming Board to continue its regulatory costs.

Chicago does not take part in VGTs, though a 2019 res publica jurisprudence authorised a major integrated casino holiday resort property inward the Windy City’s downtown area. Bally’s is behind that project, a $1.7 1000000000 gaming complex at the Freedom Center — also known as the Chicago Tribune Publishing Center.

The 2019 state gaming elaboration package additionally authorized regional casinos in  Danville, Waukegan, Rockford, South Suburbs, and Williamson County.

Though VGT machines inwards Evanston wouldn’t presumptively live of often vexation for Bally’s inward nearby Chicago, the gaming machines feature generated 144 revenue of more than $5 one million million since the 2012 natural law was passed.

Reid believes Evanston’s ongoing forbidding on VGTs is primitive inward a time where IL residents can station sound sports bets on their roving devices, and casinos continue to spread out crosswise the state. Before the 2019 expansion, IL was already home to riverboat casinos, which were legalized inward 1990.

VGT Revenue

With Reid’s VGT proposition glade a metropolis committee, the value moves to the Evanston City Council for farther consideration. The ix alders, the mayor, and the city manager mold local rules and laws as permitted below the Land of Lincoln Constitution.

If the VGT amount is adopted, the Evanston governing could reckon its taxation receipts balloon inward the coming years.

In Berwyn, also a Windy City suburbia with nigh 15,000 fewer residents than Evanston, the city’s 29 VGT locations collectively generated receipts gaming revenue of more than $17.3 one thousand thousand last year. The city’s share was $866,273.

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