Blowing it - Sports Book
- Thousands of Bears fans will make their way to Soldier Field Sept. 5 to witness the team’s latest grudge match against the Green Bay Packers.
But instead of trying to score tickets or plunking down on the couch to watch on TV, it’s a safe bet that scores of additional die-hards will trek a mile across the Indiana border to the Horseshoe Hammond Casino, where they’ll be able to put down the Chicago area’s first-ever legal wagers on the nearly century-old rivalry.
While the Illinois Gaming Board scrambles to draft regulations on sports betting — not to mention a mountain of additional legal wrangling sprung from the state’s mammoth gambling expansion — executives at the Indiana casino that’s just a 25-minute drive from the Loop plan to announce Monday their new sports book will launch Sept. 4, a day ahead of the NFL kickoff.
Hell, if we're in Indiana betting on any sports, we might as well stick around and gamble at their casino, too.
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posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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and fill up their gas tanks.....
that's why Illinois is broke and Indiana isn't
Its not easy to figure out the skim. You never know who has a wire these days.
Don’t forget to gas up and buy smokes...if you smoke that is.
And pick up a truckload of less taxed essentials too.
It’s truly very sad what these terrible politicians have done to Illinois. And when given the chance to improve Illinois they blow it and the surrounding states reap the benefits.
A former Indiana governor once said, “the best thing for the success of Indiana are Illinois politicians.” This speaks volumes and should be very concerning for Illinois voters.
Da Bears are like a mighty locomotive. They will crush Green Bay and mangle their bodies. The lamentations of their women and weeping of their children will be music to the mighty Bears ears.
Ive been using off shore on line betting for almost 20 years. I get my money through western union. Nice and simple
Illinois and Chicago are a laughing stock across the country.
Once again the bent earred dogs who run this state have been out duelled. Burke, Madigan, and fatso are here to make money for themselves and their private interests, not for the citizens of this city or state. We need leaders, not followers, we need innovators, not copiers.
If and when this city ever gets a casino, I’ll still trek a mile across the boarder if I choose to gamble. This city and state no longer deserve any more money than their ripping me off for.
"Hell, if we're in Indiana betting on any sports, we might as well stick around and gamble at their casino, too."
Do not forget to fill up the gas tank and do some shopping too.
I rather drive to Indiana then play in chicago any day!
Start off with the city will charge at least $30 to park your car anywhere!
Then all the high priced entertainment, food and booze.
It would take the fun out of going to a casino in Illinois!
It would be much cheaper to do a 30 minute ride across the border even from the Northside of town!
Hell, even Rivers casino in Des Plaines sucks!
Don't worry. The Chicago Bookies will still take your money.
Remember the movie Casino? The guys that ran the
place made fun of the customers blowing their money.
Things are going to change for the worst Jan 1, 2020.
All maritime shipping required to use low sulphur
bunker fuel. As 90% of world trade happens on the
oceans, expect the price to be passed on to the
consumer. Diesel fuel also expected to be impacted.
You'll need all the money you can get your hands on
come 1-1-2020.
I LOVE me those M80's firecrackers!
Can Illinois and Chicago politicians get any dumber? Who votes for these idiots?
Honey, I have the night off. How about we drive to Roosevelt & Kostner for a night out?
Fill up the tank, shop for groceries, ammo with no bag charges. Bet on the Bears and stop at Portillos for a Beef or dog in Morrisville. There is also a Culvers, Saks and Costco at the Hwy 30 exit, bonus stop would be Albanese Candy factory about 3 miles east on Hwy 30. All this less than an hour away from downtown much quicker if you live on the South side. I predict that you will like it so much it will become a weekly trip. Enjoy the experience of saving money and sticking it to the Fat Man in Springfield. Can do the same going north to Hwy 50 in WI, not sure where that state is with the sports betting though.
(OT) You’re riding on a hard call someone shot man with a gun, then you have this in the media all over it blaming the police the war is basically against the good people the media does not want Police to do their jobs man would’ve gone and you got this punk what his camera over there the police want them out of the way you should’ve been out of the way he could’ve been shot or he could’ve been the offender for all we know:
CBS 2 Exclusive: Man Talks About Confrontation With Chicago Police Officer He Caught On Camera
https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/08/12/officer-confrontation-caught-camera/
Look at the group from the aerial view, it’s not just one kid with a camera it’s a group you’re looking for a man with a gun with Police being shot shot at police station is being shot with the windows being pierced police are on alert yet the media as usual blames the police for the incident instead of asking the asshole why the fuck he didn’t get away with the police told him to leave. Then the media calls out how the policeman had his hand on his gun of course he dead it’s a call of a man with a gun somebody shot a gun was recovered correct media? If you do want do you do any proactive police work you are putting yourself in jeopardy you are putting your home your assets your freedom in jeopardy think about that when you look at yourself in the mirror in the morning it’s not worth it just not worth it anymore the jungles of Chicago have always been like this and they don’t seem to ever change. And then you have this punk kid saying he should not be a policeman and needs anger management wow! As stated many times may Almighty God please bless the police officers so they come home safe from their tours of duty amen!
Can I place a Large Wager on the Over / Under on the Number of Politicians getting indited and going to jail in SHITCAGO ?
I am an economic and social conservative. Gambling is an old vice that creates more problems.
When I was growing up the guy at the paper stand at 82nd Ellis knew how to run a sports book and never had a complaining customer. But the best and the brightest cannot do it when everything is legal. Boggles the mind.
But JP has other matters to solve as witness his claim that Illinois is going to fix hot weather for the entire world:
"Law allows Illinois to take action on climate change"
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/local/law-allows-illinois-to-take-action-on-climate-change-1
The governor was too busy at the buffet table to notice.
Now, kees me you fool!!!!
Illinois never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Don't forget the lottery... if you win in Indiana you don't have to have your name or face known......
It's a safe bet that Illinois will screw up gaming.
The Local thief politicians are still trying to figure out the skim while Indiana makes money. It's not easy to figure out the split when there's so much potential money to steal! Only a fool would come to Chicago to lose their shirt...
You knew they'd fuck it up. Go to Indiana or play on Bovada.
...and grab some groceries, booze, gas, etc.
Indiana red state... Illinois deep blue. Example A
These idiot politicians in Illinois love to spend money , but can’t make money. Holy shit !!! Look at Vegas , that city makes hundreds of millions of dollars every year off of sports gambling. This state is so fucked up the politicians can’t even capitalize on sports gambling.
And buy gas and consumables while there too.
This is a stupid boondoggle , and costly one at that, by blockheaded Illinois politicians.
big city liberal pols.... outsmarted by a bunch of cornpone deplorables. Over and over.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Da Bears are like a mighty locomotive. They will crush Green Bay and mangle their bodies. The lamentations of their women and weeping of their children will be music to the mighty Bears ears.
8/19/2019 01:07:00 AM
Since pot isn’t legal here for another few months I’m assuming you’re consuming the black market kind.
Word out of a closed door City Hall meeting is Lightfoot wants no new police contract in her first term. She’s fighting with the bean counters over raising taxes by a whooping 10% which they rightfully insist will cause a tidal wave of middle class homeowners out. Her reply was to, “Tell the FOP to pound sand” and blame them for the pension crisis. It was quit testy and expect more defections soon from her inner circle.
Don't forget to also stock up on ammo and liquor while you are out of state.
Alcohol,Tobacco and Firearms should be a shopping list not a Federal Agency.
Invest in U Haul stock the Mayor is preparing her final draft of her doomsday speech and it includes a whooping 10% homeowners tax! Her closest allies were shocked and furious and the villain of this, the EVIL racist FOP. Expect the tenuous Patrick Murray City Counsel confrontations to re-emerge on the local news days before the speech, and production of commercials portraying her as a reformist fighting the racist Trump loving FOP are in production as we speak. It’s a sickness and sign of a real racist.
dont forget to get gas and buy groceries
Our ever stupid illinois politicians. They can not do anything right. They so screwed up the gambling expansion bill that it will have to go back to Springfield for a rewrite. That will open the door to every jurisdiction in this state for their voice in the matter. One thing that I think will be in jeopardy is the clause that states profits will go to pensions. The polls want, and will get, by March 2020, a ballot clause that calls for rewriting the state constitution on pensions. The gambling money they want for themselves.Nol gambling consortium will come to Chicago under the law as it is now written.Then, add the fact that Lori wants to use gambling as a social experiment and put the casino in the most dangerous parts of the city.Then the thugs who follow Chicagoans home from Indiana to rob them wont have to travel so far
Anonymous Anonymous said...
I rather drive to Indiana then play in chicago any day!
Start off with the city will charge at least $30 to park your car anywhere!
Then all the high priced entertainment, food and booze.
It would take the fun out of going to a casino in Illinois!
It would be much cheaper to do a 30 minute ride across the border even from the Northside of town!
Hell, even Rivers casino in Des Plaines sucks!
8/19/2019 04:28:00 AM
Fuck Indiana and its casinos. The only thing worth going to in that hillbilly haven is 3 Floyd’s Brewery! Sorry not sorry!
good point about parking costs
I have a place in Lake Geneva and its literally an hour drive. I’m there twice a month off season and almost every week during spring/summer/fall. Gas is easily 30-50 cents cheaper a gallon and sales tax is only about 5 or 5.5 percent. I buy my gas and any moderate to big purchase items there. Start divorcing yourself from Chicago/Illinois now. Life exists outside of this shithole state.
Every dollar the city takes in it pays out two, maybe three.
Anywhere else that had Chicago revenue flow would have gold paved streets and zero taxes.
(BTW, Chicago IL declared highest sales taxes in the nation, 10.25%)
If Shortshanks and Rahm could do anything good or were good at, it was malfeasance.
Too many entrenched pockets to line to profit on anything, it’s always been that way.
I’d bet nobody makes money on any of the city run downtown venues, revenue is filtered by paying for high level salaries, private subcontracting small jobs.
All these sites, attractions and places of amusement just keep the optic of activity.
City can’t make money for the these outlets when just keeps feeding the tax cheat, incentive granted investors.
Pulp brained swamp toad is too determined to be just constantly complain not fixing.
Toads don’t fix, they sit and they croak.
Our Legislature (and Governor) were in such a hurry to pass laws, that they forgot the agencies have to make rules to administer the laws. ISP is in court over the Gun Dealer Shutdown...err, Licensing Act because nobody gave them enough time to write the rules to enforce the law, let alone a public comment period, so dealers could actually know how to comply. The gambling expansion was done the same way: set a bunch of way too short deadlines, failing to have enough staff (let alone new Board members), and time to sort things out.
Gas is no longer much cheaper in Indiana than it is in Illinois. Just Sayin
100 hundred dollars on BEARS goin to super bowl, but not winning.
this state could fuck up a cup of coffee
5:50, one way on the Skyway 2 get there and hold your breath comin back north on the ryan.
There's a WALMART right across the border in Hammond.
Once again Illinois screws it up. Both Indiana and Iowa will be taking sports bet when the Bears open their season in September Not so for Illinois Illinois hasn’t really started anything so there is going to be plenty of lost revenue
Illinois wants to tax the casino at 72% making investors not willing to invest
They ought to impeach Groot. First 100 days are a big zero. Election Day will be the day of “Recognizing the reconnong”
Things are going from bad to worse. The Mayor believes an across the board 10% property tax can address the pension crisis. The catch is her attack against our F.O.P. She has a seething hatred and told her inner circle to start a media campaign against them and expect commercials using the obnoxious city counsel confrontations with our V.P. Murray. Supposedly her plan is NO new police contract in her first term.
Here's an idea, copy a state's gambling regulations that has a profitable system. There is a reason why Illinois is the worst run state in the USA. Democratic retards. Politicians are the problem.
Indiana casinos now post odds for when the Chicago police pension goes bust.
We used to act like a Christian government. Now anyone like Jag Bag is elevated to be governor and his answer for deficits is to make illicit gambling legal preying on the backs of citizens who can't afford their own health insurance. Our lord JESUS does not bless sin. Gambling proceeds will not fix the debt and or pension issues.
its starting to look like enron. in enrons day it was making money for everybody. when the wheels started to come off the bosses knew, and started the every man for himself, grab as much as you can, before this house of cards collapses. i think thats where we are in this state. these pols know for sure the state is doomed and they are stealing as much as they can before it all burns down. they know white collar crime pays. dont be like enron employees, grab your shit and flee now, the good ship s.s. shitcago is slipping under the icy waves.........
Have them double bag your groceries. No seven cent tax there.
Plan on moving to Indiana when the wife retires. Biggest fear is that the idiot liberals will follow, vote like a typical Democrat and screw up that state too. I’ve talked to several liberals who are upset with all the new taxes. When I asked who they voted for they told me Pritzker. Idiots are pissed that he is actually doing what he said he was going to do. Lunacy!!!!!!
Anonymous said...
Indiana red state... Illinois deep blue. Example A
8/19/2019 09:23:00 AM
Hope you don't get hurt at work in Indiana workers comp system suck there hope your family takes care of you! If Republicans weren't so pro-business anti-union they would be permanent majority party.
A piece of advice to those here who might be thinking about moving to Indiana: STAY AWAY FROM NORTHERN LAKE COUNTY... nothing but brain-dead Democrat voters here too. Gary is worse than Detroit, and don't get me started on East Chicago.
Sanity in Indiana begins south of U.S. 30.
You mean to tell me you don’t already have a bookie where you can bet through a mobile app on your phone? I don’t even have to leave the house, let alone the couch. I can watch the Bears get destroyed at home and count my cash.
My bet for the Bears-Packers game:
Rodgers breaks leg and arm in first quarter. Comes back and throws winning TD pass as clock expires.
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Have them double bag your groceries. No seven cent tax there.
8/20/2019 08:51:00 AM
WOW 7 cents for a grocery bag. I’ll move tomorrow before I go bankrupt
Yes. Please do. We have enough arrogant idiots in this city.
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