'Cabrini-Green’s displaced residents aren’t being included in Chicago’s casino plans.' | _ToniaHill and TheTRiiBE Read more here 👇
On Wednesday, the city council approved a plan to offer Chicago’s sole casino license to Bally’s Corporation, 41 – 7, with one recusal.
The $1.7 billion casino proposal includes a 3,000-seat theater, a 500-room luxury hotel that would open with 100 rooms, a Riverwalk extension, a pedestrian bridge, an outdoor park, an outdoor music venue, an amenity terrace featuring a large pool spa, fitness center, a sun deck, a food hall, cafes, and six restaurants. It will also offer space for 3,400 slot machines and 170 gaming tables.
The casino would allow the city to capitalize on gaming and other revenues to provide new funding sources for Chicago police and fire pension funds, she added. In 1999, Daley announced his intention to tear down the high-rise towers. The city pledged to spend more than $1.5 billion over ten years to demolish 18,000 apartments and build or rehabilitate 25,000 apartments. Despite this pledge, it’s impossible to forget the thousands of Black people displaced from the area that, when they lived there, craved the type of financial investment and opportunity that a new casino would bring.
“I wasn’t afraid of progress. I wasn’t afraid of prosperity when we had to tear down the former Cabrini-Green high-rises. I wasn’t afraid,” Burnett said. However, Burnett’s comments about Cabrini-Green call that into question. City lawmakers have been making promises to former Cabrini-Green residents for years, and many of those promises never came to fruition. Will it maintain its new promises to minorities and women now?
Out of the three casino bids up for consideration, including Rivers 78 and One Central, Lightfoot said she selected Bally’s proposal over the others because of its commitment to meeting equity goals outlined by the casino selection committee. Bally’s is also one of the only operators that did not have a competing casino in the Chicagoland region. She said that Bally’s also has a labor peace agreement with organized labor.
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