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Chicago’s request for proposals issued in April detailed an array of minimum requirements and amenities for qualifying IR bids. The RFP stated that proposals must come with 500 or fewer hotel rooms, meeting space, restaurants and bars, and an entertainment venue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But the RFP said nothing about what sort of requirements the downtown Chicago casino must offer to prevent the resort from delivering societal harms to at-risk populations.<\/p>\n
One solution is to allocate a small portion of the associated gaming tax revenue the casino would generate, opines Grace Cham McKibben, executive director of the Coalition for a Better Chinese American Community,<\/strong><\/p>\nThe goal is to fund local support and treatment programs in the communities directly surrounding the resort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Some area residents in Chicago’s Chinatown are speaking up about their concerns regarding a casino resort potentially coming to the community. Illinois passed a commercial gaming bill in 2019 that Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signed into law that July. The casino expansion package authorized five casinos in the Chicago suburbs, plus a larger integrated resort […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":195596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13592],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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