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View Poll Results: Which is the best site Lightfoot selected?
Michael Reese site south of McCormick Place 31 67.39%
US Steel site on the far south lakefront 3 6.52%
West Side in Lawndale at Roosevelt and Kostner 1 2.17%
Far, far south at Harborside (near Pullman) 2 4.35%
Former Taylor Homes site near Sox Park 9 19.57%
Voters: 46. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 08-01-2019, 08:02 AM
 
Location: In the heights
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el ridership is down overall and continues to slide... wasting money on another line for a single purpose entity is not very bright... there's plenty of places you can put it in the loop or other areas that are plenty transit accessible
Yea, a short line shuttle that only goes from one point to the casino with no stops in between would be really dumb. Who's advocating for that?
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Old 08-03-2019, 09:31 PM
 
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Look at how many hotels are popping up in the West Loop / Fulton Market. And with all that open land and easy access to the immediate west...hmmmm

https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/7/26...m7bmICGxoibcbY
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Old 08-04-2019, 07:17 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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Look at how many hotels are popping up in the West Loop / Fulton Market. And with all that open land and easy access to the immediate west...hmmmm

https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/7/26...m7bmICGxoibcbY
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Look at how many hotels are popping up in the West Loop / Fulton Market. And with all that open land and easy access to the immediate west...hmmmm

https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/7/26...m7bmICGxoibcbY
I could easily see that having been one of the sites offered up. I have little question that if matched with the other five, the only one giving it competition would be Michael Reese. I figure it would be a fairly even fight between those two.

Let's imagine they went with your choice...in particular the "easy access to the immediate west...hmmmm":

Within the parameters of the Near West Side, I'd place it slightly to the west of the United Center. Perhaps even close enough to the UC where a degree of parking share could take place.

Look at it this way: if you look at the central part of the city and how it has flowed west, one could argue that on both sides of the Eisenhower, the UC to the north, the med center to the south would be the western limits of that growth.

This area is well served by CTA (blue, pink, green) and expressway access (I-290). If you were to add a casino next to the UC, you would, along with the med center have 3 institutions on a site that could be the ones in all of Chicago should (and is) served by rapid transit and cars.

This area is already under enough growth, but the growth could exponential if the Medical District carries out its major expansion plans. Putting the casino adds just the kind of critical mass this area could use.

And if viewed holistically with the three elements I identified and recognizing this as a major hub in the greater downtown area, the expense of serving this part of town by improving its transportation system makes a lot of sense.

I could see the following done:

• Rebuild the Damen Ave. interchange to serve a heavier load, making it a key intersection

• Augment CTA's coverage of the area by adding on another station (United Center-Madison) to the mix, giving you...

Damen (blue)
Polk (pink)
Lake & Ashland (green, pink)
Madison (proposed; pink)
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Old 08-04-2019, 07:57 AM
 
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Just Opinion here and all suggestions have merit. But I'm not sure easy CTA access is best? Why is easy access by poorer folk hooked on gambling. Is never a good thing? Just feeds their compulsions that keep them in poverty. Many not all of course it could happen to. Bad enough so much is spent on lotteries for their ticket out of some hoods.

I think of a former Uncle by marriage. Long passed. He worked for the city. Good wage and benefits and never should have needed to live in a area he never would take his autistic who lived with the Mother my Aunt (on the farther Northwest side), into his hood. We would meet in restaurants elsewhere or occasionally his parents home.

He was HOOKED on Horse track racing and gambled his money away. Dealt with loan-sharks (as they were called). To keep it going. Easy train ride to the suburban Park for him. Sadly he never lived to enjoy a nice pension.

I'd rather see Conventioneers, more high-rollers coming to the city to Suburbanites that are not going to continue in poverty over it.

Just some opinion and see Michael Reese sight .... as having easy Conventioneers access and still many visitors would Uber etc. there from hotels in the core.

Not saying the ultimate sight. Just not seeing CTA easy access as best for locals hooked on overspending and easier for them to get there a great thing. But it also can be a Entertainment venue as may are.
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Old 08-04-2019, 11:05 AM
 
Location: Chicago
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Just Opinion here and all suggestions have merit. But I'm not sure easy CTA access is best? Why is easy access by poorer folk hooked on gambling. Is never a good thing? Just feeds their compulsions that keep them in poverty. Many not all of course it could happen to. Bad enough so much is spent on lotteries for their ticket out of some hoods.

I think of a former Uncle by marriage. Long passed. He worked for the city. Good wage and benefits and never should have needed to live in a area he never would take his autistic who lived with the Mother my Aunt (on the farther Northwest side), into his hood. We would meet in restaurants elsewhere or occasionally his parents home.

He was HOOKED on Horse track racing and gambled his money away. Dealt with loan-sharks (as they were called). To keep it going. Easy train ride to the suburban Park for him. Sadly he never lived to enjoy a nice pension.

I'd rather see Conventioneers, more high-rollers coming to the city to Suburbanites that are not going to continue in poverty over it.

Just some opinion and see Michael Reese sight .... as having easy Conventioneers access and still many visitors would Uber etc. there from hotels in the core.

Not saying the ultimate sight. Just not seeing CTA easy access as best for locals hooked on overspending and easier for them to get there a great thing. But it also can be a Entertainment venue as may are.
Dave, CTA access is definitely a two edged sword. And, yes, it obviously can have a negative effect on those who are poor and have the addiction.

I think the determine thing would be location. If it were Michael Reese or the ones that have been introduced here (Loop, Near West), then you are definitely wanting to have tourists, business visitors, conventioneers have easy access to it. You would need public transportation. And the L would work far better than bus.

It is not just a matter of finding a location. One has the realize the following:

LOCATION WILL DETERMINE WHAT TPYE OF CASINO THIS IS GOING TO BE.

A central location will be a casino far more catering to out-of-towners. It will, I would think, due to the expensive of the land and what it would need to service it be more high end.

If the site were elsewhere, let's say the one near Lk Calmuet, what you will get is generic casino, a clone to the nearby casinos on the Indiana lakefront. Center city is different.

Think of Pottawatomi vs. Majestic Star in Buffington Harbor. The Gary casino is just a casino. Pottawatomi's location adjacent to downtown Milwaukeee created a high profile, major casino. Pottawatomi differs from any casino that is within a two hour drive from Chicago. It's big league. And nothing else is in the same league.

I have never been to the Casinos in Detroit and St. Louis. My impression is that the Detroit ones are more akin to Pottawatomi where in St. Louis, even though they are downtown, they still have that "could be anywhere" look. But assuming Detroit is a bit like Pottawatomi, then that would probably be the only place in the Midwest where there would be something like the Milwaukee operation.

Back on location and type: that downtown or downtown & surrounding casino will be higher end, will not get the folks who just want to endless drop quarters into a machine (or its modern equivalent).

And since the city gets just one casino and the greater downtown market is an unparraled location: nothing like it in the midwest, then Chicago should be encouraging a high end casino...a place where the poor guy with the addiction is going to go anyway.
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Old 08-04-2019, 12:11 PM
 
Location: Chicago, IL
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Just Opinion here and all suggestions have merit. But I'm not sure easy CTA access is best? Why is easy access by poorer folk hooked on gambling. Is never a good thing? Just feeds their compulsions that keep them in poverty. Many not all of course it could happen to. Bad enough so much is spent on lotteries for their ticket out of some hoods.
This is exactly my point, CTA access makes this too easy for poverty-stricken people in the city to hop on a train and gamble their savings away. I get CTA access for lots of things; neighborhoods, sporting arenas, downtown, Hospitals, etc. But a casino shouldn't necessarily be one of the destinations for an L anyways. It's far too easy for people to just hop on the Red/Green line from the south side and go to this casino and make bad choices if this is solely placed by a CTA stop. Reese is perfect because it cuts that off and specifically is located with convention-goers/tourists in mind before anyone else, which is the whole point of this project in the first place.
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Old 08-04-2019, 12:43 PM
 
Location: In the heights
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This is exactly my point, CTA access makes this too easy for poverty-stricken people in the city to hop on a train and gamble their savings away. I get CTA access for lots of things; neighborhoods, sporting arenas, downtown, Hospitals, etc. But a casino shouldn't necessarily be one of the destinations for an L anyways. It's far too easy for people to just hop on the Red/Green line from the south side and go to this casino and make bad choices if this is solely placed by a CTA stop. Reese is perfect because it cuts that off and specifically is located with convention-goers/tourists in mind before anyone else, which is the whole point of this project in the first place.
I guess the argument is that the casino also means employment so you want access to that, but somehow have people living in Chicago not go there to gamble if they can ill afford such.

Anyhow, still with the Metra Electric here. The city wants better mass transit and an express to O'Hare and the convention center? Well, this casino can be the driving force with that by connecting Metra Electric to being able to go to Union Station and then through-running on electrified tracks to an O'Hare spur. Just like McCormick, it should be built straddling the rails, closer to the lake and integrating the station into it.
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Old 08-08-2019, 05:35 PM
 
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Tribune Media River District wants to get into the casino mix. I don't think Lightfoot will agree to a downtown location given she's for developing the underdeveloped neighborhoods...but it's an interesting location.

https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/8/8/...-ZtuCKJVfzazUs

I'm sure many more sites will be proposed.
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Old 08-08-2019, 07:57 PM
 
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Tribune Media River District wants to get into the casino mix. I don't think Lightfoot will agree to a downtown location given she's for developing the underdeveloped neighborhoods...but it's an interesting location.

https://chicago.curbed.com/2019/8/8/...-ZtuCKJVfzazUs

I'm sure many more sites will be proposed.
Downtown is a terrible choice.

Reese though is perfect, because it's close enough to downtown, but not in downtown.
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Old 08-08-2019, 08:34 PM
 
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People who want to gamble will find the gambling, wherever you put it. Exhibit A:

https://www.wbez.org/shows/wbez-news...BdJJrecrCbjYXY
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