How's the Casino Going?
Two decades ago, as Rosemont and its controversial Mayor Donald E. Stephens were trying to secure a coveted casino license for the tiny but politically powerful northwest suburb, reputed mob ties proved their undoing, and the project landed instead in neighboring Des Plaines as Rivers Casino.
Among the concerns by state regulators hesitant about letting Rosemont host a lucrative gambling complex: the use of D&P Construction Co., Inc., dumpsters on the site that Stephens was prepping for a casino that never materialized for his town.
That waste hauling company was, according to the FBI, controlled at the time by reputed leaders of the Chicago mob, brothers John and Peter DiFronzo, both of whom died in the last few years.
Despite that ugly history, the Chicago Sun-Times discovered that D&P is being used on the River West site where Bally’s is developing a permanent casino — and the Illinois Gaming Board has now halted the project following questions from the newspaper.
Waste hauling (and casinos) are notorious intertwined with Outfit people, here and pretty much everywhere. Driving by the site, we knew exactly who was moving what.
That it took this long to "discover" the mob connections is a testament to how far media "reporting" has fallen in the past few years.
Good thing the pension doesn't need the promised casino money!
Labels: corruption
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
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“I don’t know if you know who runs that business it I can assure you it’s not the Boy Scouts…”
Remember what Thornton Melon said:
First of all you're going to have to grease the local politicians for the sudden zoning problems that always come up. Then there's the kickbacks to the carpenters, and if you plan on using any cement in this building I'm sure the teamsters would like to have a little chat with ya, and that'll cost ya. Oh and don't forget a little something for the building inspectors. Then there's long term costs such as waste disposal. I don't know if you're familiar with who runs that business but I assure you it's not the boyscouts.
Just trying to bankrupt the city? Finish the casino and let’s make some money!
Nothing to see here. Nothing to report. Same old same old.
No journalist willing to be a journalist.
Well Surprise. Surprise.
both brothers died poor and decrepit, not the glam life we see in movies
Good thing the pension doesn't need the promised casino money!
I hear cat food tastes better with croutons
reporting? hahahaha ,,,, the lying liberal news in Illinois does what they are told to do
The Casino is about 20 or more years too late.
Haha who fucking cares! The U.S. government and the Illinois Democrats are the biggest mafia around!
Nothing runs smoothly in Shitcago. There’s always some sort of criminal group behind everything that goes on here. It’s been that way for over a 100 years and will always be this way. Unfortunately.
No Nose DiFronzo!
But Rosemont just rolled along with a very nice concert/bar venue. This is what happens when you don't have progressive dummies running things.
I predict this building never gets built and Ballys goes bankrupt. Not what i want but this project has been built on a house of cards from day one. No pun intended but its chicago. That very ignorant and extremely angry lesbian former mayor picked this horse shit company under dubious circumstances and its been downhill ever since
Agreed
Wait for the casino to open in the sacred land of Shabbona lake. The fat tub of shit gave away a state park. Nobody talks about that. Kane County's reward for going red against the aforementioned fat tub of shit's policies.
Casino gambling has been legal in Illinois for about 40 years. Any good reporter would look into why Chicago never got one. Wait what am I saying, a good reporter in Chicago.
Pay to play we no want nobody dat nobody sent
Rodney at his best!!!
If the job gets done on time and no one dies, who cares. Or is it the fact it's not a minority contract that's the problem?
Rodney Dangerfield was Da Man
I'm sure the black politicians have taken over the shakedown business as a few contractors have told me.
Thornton Melon
Casinos when run by a city never produce the revenues that were projected and promised
The liberal news outlets are privatized propaganda.
https://www.illinoispolicy.org/pritzker-touts-economic-growth-while-proposed-budget-risks-it/
Pritzker saying one thing and doing another. No surprise but a good read
Chicago ain't ready for reform.
That's what you think
Forget the outfit guys. Hey lets build a casino two blocks from a drug gang and criminal encampment with piranha's in waiting. What could go wrong?
God Bless Rodney!
FU pay me!
Can we get a little shakedown money? I mean The Outfit, Daley's etc...have run the tables for so long lol
https://wgntv.com/news/wgn-investigates/2-girlfriends-2-deaths-1-house-many-questions/
Please read.
Don't worry guys if a copper farts the wrong way he has 4 different levels of oversight but the outfit guys land lucrative contracts and nobody's says shit.
it is what I know
Chicago is the city that twerks.
Change to the governor food court and it will make millions
I'm Shocked, Shocked, there's graft and corruption involved in a casino built in Chicago....On another note, could they have picked a worse location?
Who cares? We have much bigger problems in Illinois' government. Later we will figure out just who is collecting our trash at the casinos. The trash collection industry has been mobbed up for decades. Everyone knows it and no one cares. This is another Chicago media "nothingburger"
Remember...Conehead doesn't want any white investors...
Fade to black as Journey sings "Dont Stop"....cut scene.
I heard a rumor that a certain exempt has a shot at running security there. My sources tell me he/she is looking for a few good men and women for diversity hires. The plan is to leave CPD and run the security gig like a side hustle.
Correct
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