{"id":997649,"date":"2026-08-13T06:58:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/997649\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T06:58:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T06:58:23","slug":"chicago-alders-call-on-ballys-to-fully-resume-casino-project-amid-dispute-over-video-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/997649\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago alders call on Bally&#8217;s to fully resume casino project amid dispute over video gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Chicago City Council members are calling on Bally&#8217;s to get back to work on building a new casino in the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A group of 28 alderpersons signed a letter Wednesday saying the company cannot keep building the casino portion while <a data-ylk=\"slk:delaying other promised parts of the project;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/ballys-slows-parts-chicago-casino-project-amid-dispute-video-gaming-terminals-dividing-city-council-members\/19658580\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">delaying other promised parts of the project<\/a>, including the hotel and restaurants.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/watch\/live\/11064984\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24\/7. Click here to watch<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bally&#8217;s says the pause is tied to the council&#8217;s decision to allow video gambling terminals across the city, which could affect Bally&#8217;s profits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bally&#8217;s told ABC7 Wednesday night that they are open to meeting with City Council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The casino itself remains on track to open early next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago City Council members are calling on Bally&#8217;s to get back to work on building a new casino&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":997650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[159727,960,24970,5310,5386,1818],"class_list":["post-997649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-abc7-chicago","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-city-council","tag-city-council","tag-il","tag-illinois"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117086906325897856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/997649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/997650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=997649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=997649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}