Illinois General Assembly, video gaming, and community response


I’m changing direction this week. Although I plan more posts on healthcare nationalized, this week I’m going to cover the State of Illinois and its new push to increase revenue by allowing gambling/video gaming throughout the State.

I had intended to end my series on video gaming on Saturday. However, I have more to say and it seems apparent that healthcare nationalized will not occur this week and may not occur this year—nor should it.

Therefore, I’m going to write a few more posts on video gaming and then return to healthcare nationalized.

The following is from http://www.ilcaaap.org/ (Illinois Church Action on Alcohol & Addiction Problems)

Communities that banned video gambling

01) Beach Park

02) Carbondale

03) Country Club Hills

04) Elburn (When I taught at St. Charles, I lived in Elburn for a few years.)

05) Evanston

06) Lake Forest

07) Lincolnwood

08) Mt. Prospect

09) Naperville

10) Northbrook

11) Rochester

12) Rosemont

Counties that banned video gambling

01) Du Page County

Is your community/county listed? If so, very good. If not, why not?

Communities discussing video gambling

01) Campton Hills

02) Chicago

03) Effingham

04) Elgin

05) Glenview

06) Gurnee

07) Homewood

08) Lake in the Hills

09) Lindenhurst

10) Mettawa

11) Orland

12) Palos Heights

13) Park Ridge

14) Schaumburg

15) Southland

16) Springfield (The State Capitol!—my addition)

17) West Dundee

Counties discussing video gambling

01) Champaign County

02) Kane County

03) Lake County

04) Will County

Is your community/county listed? If so, very good. If not, why not?

Did your Representative vote to increase gambling in Illinois? Why? Did your Senator vote to increase gambling in Illinois? Why?