House OKs Chicago casino, slots at O'Hare, Midway

I have mixed feelings about this. My reason is because for all the states that have casinos, I have not seen any increase in education funding, as a matter of fact, I believe those states are experiencing major cuts in their education budgets. So I am always confused when the selling point for casinos is money for education. With the issues in Chicago, I just don't know.

A major gambling package won House approval today with provisions for a land-based casino in Chicago or a riverboat gambling palace on Lake Michigan, four more casinos around the state, and slot machines at racetracks and Chicago’s two airports.

If the plan makes it through the Senate and gets the governor's signature, it would be Illinois' biggest expansion of gambling in the more than two decades since the original riverboat gambling bill passed.

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