Daley Negotiating Downtown Chicago Casino

Mayor Richard M. Daley confirmed Thursday what CBS 2 reported exclusively Wednesday night: he’s once again negotiating to build a big, billion-dollar-a-year land-based casino in downtown Chicago. CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports on a day of speedy developments in Springfield. VIDEO: See What People Are Saying About The Possible Expansion Of State-Sanctioned Gambling

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Casino gambling information:

• In 1891, Sittman and Pitt of Brooklyn began to manufacture the first nationally known poker card machines. The machines maintained their enormous popularity until just before World War I.
• The first recorded betting games were played with marked disks or bones (the forerunners of dice), and spinning wheels or shields.
• The most significant forms of illegal gambling in the United States are numbers, betting with bookmakers or bookies, and sports pools or sports cards.
• The name of the game "Poker" likely descended from the French poque, which descended from the German pochen ("to knock"), but it is not clear whether the games named by those terms were the real origins of poker.