![]() ![]() Related Midwest and Rush Street Gaming, which runs casinos in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Schenectady, and-closer to home-Des Plaines, were among the nearly dozen respondents to the request. In August 2020, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot put out a non-binding Request for Information for the casino, asking existing casino operators to weigh in on what recommended amenities and how much acreage and infrastructure it would need. It’s also now possible that it will be considered as the site of a future Chicago casino, which was approved as part of the 2019 Illinois Gambling Expansion Act. It’s part of “The 78 ”–a megadevelopment so named because Related Midwest, the developer for the project, is positioning it as the future seventy-eighth neighborhood of Chicago.īordered by Ping Tom Park to the south and Clark Street to the east, the site is slated to be a mixed-use development, with a river park, residences, a water taxi stop, and the Discovery Partners Institute campus for tech education and R&D. Walk along Roosevelt Road just east of the Chicago River, and you’ll see construction commencing on a road. ![]()
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