Reports: Gaming company offers $500 million for casino license - 2004-01-31
A Pennsylvania company has supposedly bid 500 (M) million dollars for Illinois' last-available casino license.
And both the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune today report that Penn National Gaming proposes transferring the license back to the state in exchange for long-term management rights. If the bid were to be accepted, Illinois would be the first state to own a casino.
Penn National owns Hollywood Casino in Aurora. And the newspapers report that its bid is at least 150 million dollars more than any of the other bids on the license.
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