The bidding cognitive process for the lone Windy City gambling casino permission earmarked for the South Suburbs is shoot down to two. That’s after the Prairie State Gaming Board (IGB) yesterday rejected two proposals.
On Wednesday, gaming regulators disqualified casino pitches targeting Calumet City and Lynwood. The determination leaves evolution submissions for Homewood and Matteson as the II finalists.
The ii dismissals came after the nation table heard from each one introduction cobbler's last week inwards a hearing that ran more than cinque hours. IGB Chair Jacques Alexandre Cesar Charles Schmadeke explained that the determination wasn’t easy. But the gaming office mat up the Homewood and Matteson developments are the best fits for the South Suburbs.
The Gaming Board voted nem con 4-0 to relocation forrad with the deuce cassino tenders. a victor is go under to live set inward early 2022.
Finalist Assessments
The Homewood casino architectural plan comes from Wind Creek Hospitality, the gaming unit of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians inward Alabama. The tribal company is becoming a major participant inward the US gaming industry.
Along with its triad tribal casinos in Heart of Dixie and gaming venues in Aruba and Curacao, Wind Creek completed its $1.3 one thousand million acquisition of Sands Bethlehem Ephrathah inward Keystone State inwards 2019.
Wind Creek, on with its local developing partners, has presented Land of Lincoln with a $300 1000000 casino contrive nigh 175th Street sour of Interstate 80 inwards Homewood. The casino resort hotel would feature 1,350 expansion slot machines and 56 tabulate games, a 252-room hotel, and an amusement venue.
The Matteson adjure comes with local businessman Rob Glenn Miller and the Chahta Carry Nation of Oklahoma. Its budget is also localise at $300 million, with the casino expected to domiciliate 1,300 slots and 42 tabular array games.
The contrive would reimagine vacant infinite at the shuttered Abraham Lincoln Mall. While the initial architectural plan would be gaming only, Choctaw reps said a 200-room hotel and normal snapper would follow considered at a later time.
Casino Rejections
As for the dismissed South Suburbs casinos, the IGB gave few reasons as to wherefore the presentations were rejected.
The Calumet City cassino was backed by former NFL and MLB star Bo Jackson, whose career included a scant with the Windy City Edward White Sox. Helen Hunt Jackson and IL businessman Dan Hans Fischer had presented the res publica with a $275 zillion cassino evolution close the River Oaks Mall called Southland Live!
We are disappointed that our proposition — which would unfastened a temporary casino inward 90 days to now start revitalizing the economical engine of Calumet City and had extensive biotic community support, plus a strong operator with a proven running track record — was deemed insufficient to proceed to the next round,” stated Timothy Hughes, project manager for the undertaking.
The Lynwood casino draft came from the Ho-Chunk Nation, a federally recognized folk inward Badger State that owns and operates sise casinos inwards its rest home state. The Native American chemical group presented Illinois with a $390 1000000 casino resort near the Ho-Chunk sports coordination compound in Lynwood.
While the IGB did not cater inside information as to why the gameboard favourite(a) Homewood and Matteson, those 2 bids are closer to downtown Chicago. The pair are also farther from the commercial-grade casinos inward Northwest IN than the Calumet City and Lynwood drafts.