Bally’s Chicago - Chicago Tribune Publishing Centerīally’s has submitted two essentially identical, $1.6 billion proposals to build a Bally’s Chicago casino at different sites.Ī rendering of the proposed $1.6 billion Bally’s Chicago casino, hotel and entertainment complex at the McCormick Place Truck Marshaling Yard. The state Gaming Board earlier this year gave preliminary approval to a proposed Hard Rock casino in Rockford. Neither Hard Rock nor Landmark Development responded to questions last week about the One Central financing situation or how the casino might change the outlook for the overall proposal. Kam Buckner, a Democrat who represents the area, decried what he described on Twitter as “a good old fashioned ‘Springfield Surprise.’” The proposal was shelved after state Rep. On the final day of the legislature’s fall session last month, Senate Majority Leader Kimberly Lightford, a Maywood Democrat and Pritzker ally, introduced a measure that would have tasked the Illinois Finance Authority with reaching an agreement with the developer within 120 days, with the approval of the governor’s budget office. Early this year, Pritzker spokeswoman Emily Bittner said the administration was focused on recovering from the pandemic and that it would be “a challenge for any state to provide the significant amount this developer is seeking.”
