Start of Video Gambling Is Behind Schedule
(NYT) — The cash-starved state government’s plan to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue a year through video gambling is running behind schedule.
Officials originally said video gambling, which lawmakers legalized last year, would begin by the end of the year.
“Nobody has been licensed yet,” Gene O’Shea, a spokesman for the Illinois Gaming Board, said last week. “I would guess it would start in the first six months of next year. It could easily get pushed back.”
