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    Editorial: How casinos broke their promises to the struggling downtowns of Illinois

    by Chicago Tribune Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune Nov 25, 2022 3 minutes
    Demolition continues in 2010 aboard the City of Lights I, part of a Hollywood Casino built on a pair of barges that floated on the Fox River in Aurora.

    Back in 1992, William Weidner, then president of Hollywood Casino of Aurora Inc., set out to Springfield to kill then-Mayor Richard M. Daley’s plans for a $2 billion “mega-casino” in downtown Chicago.

    Weidner and other members of what was known as the “riverboat alliance” were worried that any such facility in Chicago would suck away business from their nascent riverboat casinos in Aurora, Joliet, Elgin and other communities downstate. This was an act of self-interest. But that wasn’t the language Weidner used.

    Instead, he argued that any such casino would run contrary to

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