4 Sep 2013
Riverboat casinos in Illinois are appealing to the state to be permitted to operate 24 hours-a-day.
25 Jun 2012
After years of battle, 18 video gambling licenses approved in suburban locations within Illinois.
5 Dec 2007
News Brief: Illinois gaming regulators said they’ll take the first step toward activating the state’s 10th casino license, now that a drawn-out court battle apparently is over.
26 Nov 2007
News Brief: Gamblers, no matter how old they are, may eventually have to show their driver’s licenses and have them scanned before entering Illinois casinos.
8 Feb 2007
News Brief: A Chicago developer has agreed to sell his interest in the Casino Queen riverboat in East St. Louis to his sister, after the Illinois Gaming Board raised questions about his past ties to a known associate of organized crime.
10 Jan 2007
News Brief: The Illinois Gaming Board on Tuesday ordered a Chicago developer to sell his interest in the Casino Queen riverboat in East St. Louis because of his past ties to a known associate of organized crime.
11 Jan 2006
News Brief: The six St. Louis area casinos overall posted positive results in December, the Missouri Gaming Commission and Illinois Gaming Board reported.
4 Jan 2006
News Brief: Ratcheting up the pressure on the Illinois Gaming Board, Waukegan Mayor Richard Hyde on Tuesday testified before the five-member group, imploring them to award the state's last casino license to his town.
27 Sep 2005
Penn National Gaming reports at ameeting of the Illinois Gaming Board that it will divest both of Argosy Gaming Company's Illinois properties to secure the IGB's approval to proceed with the planned acquisition of Argosy by Penn.
7 Sep 2005
Penn National Gaming has been advised by the Illinois Gaming Board that its proposed acquisition of Argosy Gaming Company was listed as a placeholder on the IGB agenda for today's meeting.
5 Jul 2005
A former Cook County judge will join the Illinois Gaming Board.
30 Jun 2005
News Brief: The Illinois Gaming Board has technically renewed the license of the Emerald Casino. But the board made the four-year renewal retroactive to 1999, a move that effectively leaves the license for the controversial casino inactive.
18 Apr 2005
MGM Mirage executives met with the Illinois Gaming Board this week to discuss moving Mandalay's 50 percent ownership of the Grand Victoria into an escrow trust.
12 Jan 2005
News Brief: The Illinois Gaming Board's lone two members has called on Governor Blagojevich to name at least one more person to their panel so they can resume doing business.
22 Dec 2004
The Illinois Gaming Board announced today that a 24th site to enroll
persons in the Board’s Statewide Voluntary Self-Exclusion Program has opened in Davenport,
Iowa.
3 Nov 2003
News Brief: Trying to pressure Atty. Gen. Lisa Madigan to decide on a settlement with the bankrupt Emerald Casino, the chairman of the Illinois Gaming Board sent a stinging letter to Madigan on Friday contending that inaction has cost taxpayers tens of millions of dollars.
