Quinn Vetoes Casino Bill, Homewood Presses On
Another version of a casino bill is expected to resurface on the governors desk within a couple months and legislators are much more optimistic about its passage.
Gov. Pat Quinn vetoed a casino bill Monday that would have opened up an opportunity for a south suburban license, in addition to four other licenses, the Chicago Tribune reports.
This may not be much of a setback for Homewood’s casino plans, however. A new version of the bill with tighter regulations—as per Quinn’s request—is expected to surface before the end of session.
“The governor may even like it,” bill sponsor Sen. Terry Link said.
Last month, Homewood issued a request for casino proposals. Casino companies have until the end of the month to express their interest in teaming up with the village.
Hernendo RevolveR
10:45 pm on Thursday, March 7, 2013
Just make sure that Homewood officials let the Governor know that they have solved all of the corruption and crime problems associated with casinos and he can sign the next bill with confidence.
June Whitehand
4:04 pm on Saturday, March 9, 2013
I am actually glad that Quinn is holding his line on wanting verbiage that keeps any potential casino out of communities that already have records of corruption.
Now they need to extend that verbiage not only to the management companies but the vendors as well.
BUTCH
7:07 pm on Saturday, March 9, 2013
The only criminals left in HW are the GOP voters who took Dem ballots back in the late 80's and voted for Mel Reynolds who was set up to fail and in return gave the second dist JJJ
Tobias Cichon
1:13 pm on Sunday, March 10, 2013
Can't Homewood just get around this silly gubernatorial red tape by naming the casino "Wall St."?