Online horse race betting for Illinois?
Reports from Springfield, Illinois indicate that political momentum may be building to take advantage of one of the great inequalities in American online gambling - the legislative carve-outs created for betting on horse races, lotteries and fantasy sports.
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- Illinois Supreme Court rules lawmakers can collect taxes from some casinos to support horse tracks
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Gambling casinos info:
- The word Casino originally meant a public hall for music and dancing. By the second half of the 19th century, the term essentially meant a collection of gaming or gambling rooms. The classic example of a casino, is the casino at Monte-Carlo, which was opened in 1861.
- 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 MGM Grand, situated on the a Las Vegas strip has come up with a brand new slogan to promote the casino, "Think of all the New Year's resolutions you'll break." Some say it might even rival the famous Las Vegas catchphrase, "What happens here, stays here."
- In 1980, the American Psychological Association included pathological gambling in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (DSM-III).
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