Here's some more depressing news from the G2E:
"In the Land of Lincoln, gaming revenue has trended downward all
year, including a 25.6 percent drop year over year in October, said Wes
Ehrecke, president of the Iowa Gaming Association.
Illinois' decline has happened even as gaming revenue in neighboring
Iowa, where there's no smoking ban in casinos, rose or stayed steady
from January to October, Ehrecke said."
Why are we listening to this guy from Iowa (I don't trust people from Iowa in general), doesn't the Illinois Gaming Association have anything to say about getting crushed since the smoking ban? Either gamblers really like to smoke, or the tobacco tax is too high in Chicago and its making the nicotine freaks chose between buying a pack or hitting the boats.