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Post #344,903
by dmcarls
7/18/11 2:37:43 PM
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New Your post comes on an auspicious date
Today is the opening day for a new, land-based casino in the Chicago area:

http://www.chicagotr...8,0,6130026.story

And more to come...

"...lawmakers recently passed a measure that would massively expand gambling in the state. The bill would add five more casinos in Chicago, Danville, Rockford, Park City in Lake County and in a south Chicago suburb."

My two cents is that while a person is in the act of gambling, they are filled with hope. Hope is very powerful. Perhaps if there were other aspects of their lives that promised a similar feeling, the casinos wouldn't be so full.
Post #344,915
by lincoln
7/18/11 6:41:36 PM
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New And when the casino in downtown Chicago opens
kiss the ones in Elgin, Joliet, Aurora, Des Plaines and Gary and East Chicago over in Indiana goodbye. People won't need to drive for an hour to get their fix anymore.




"Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from."

-- E.L. Doctorow
     Gamble much? - (Ashton) - (3) - July 17, 2011, 06:08:18 PM EDT
         betcha 2 to one its the down economy -NT - (boxley) - July 17, 2011, 06:15:04 PM EDT
         Your post comes on an auspicious date - (dmcarls) - (1) - July 18, 2011, 02:37:43 PM EDT
             And when the casino in downtown Chicago opens - (lincoln) - July 18, 2011, 06:41:36 PM EDT

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