Lori Lightfoot (pictured) revealed that her administration is eager to bring
a Las Vegas-style casino resort to the giant Illinois city following the 2019 passage of enabling legislation but has yet to agree a concrete timeline or any specific host site. However, the Democratic politician purportedly also explained that such a venue would
form part of a larger entertainment complex seeking to attract visitors from across a metropolitan area that is already home to over nine million people.
Coming consideration:
Moving forward and the newspaper reported that Chicago now
intends to launch a more official RFI process from next month so as to be able to premiere a ‘world-class’ casino resort for ‘The Windy City’ by the end of the decade. Lightfoot purportedly moreover declared that she would like at least some of the coming operating candidates to be headquartered in Las Vegas as the Nevada city ‘
March 10, 2021
In Japan and the mayor for the port city of Tomakomai has reportedly declared that he is ‘very disappointed’ with a decision from the government of Hokkaido Prefecture to continue eschewing the chance to secure an integrated casino resort license.
According to a report from Inside Asian Gaming, Hirofumi Iwakura serves as the mayor for the community of some 174,000 people and made the statement following a Monday meeting with the Governor for Hokkaido Prefecture, Naomichi Suzuki (pictured). The source detailed that this gathering was held following a November of 2019 decision from the leaders of Japan’s northernmost prefecture that pulled the jurisdiction out of the race for the right to host one of the nation’s coming trio of Las Vegas-style developments.