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* Rendering of the new Chicago casino on the riverfront…
* The Question: Caption?
posted by Rich Miller
Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 2:58 pm
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In a blockbuster move, the City of Chicago has purchased St Louis’ Ballpark Village block, and will retrofit it as a casino in River West.
Comment by fs Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:02 pm
Bet your bottom dollar casino
Comment by Groucho Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:06 pm
I liked it better when it was a printing press.
Comment by DeeLay Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:07 pm
Thereafter, A drive along the riverfront became that much more intolerable
Comment by Lakefront Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:08 pm
Bally’s. Really? lol. How much longer do we have of this C-team administration?
Comment by ;) Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:08 pm
Rushing to meet design deadlines, Chicago bypasses architecture experts and designers and turns to three guys with a notepad waiting at a CTA station.
They win the design contract which reflects their love of the UN Headquarters in NYC, the Kennedy Center in DC and IKEA in Schaumburg.
Comment by Give Me A Break Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:11 pm
Meh but City getting $40,000,000 upfront plus $4,000,000 a year plus the gaming tax vig could grow on me.
Comment by ChicagoBars Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:12 pm
Better the riverfront than the lakefront, in my opinion. If you believe their statement, Bally’s wants to make this a signature development, so let’s hope they do it right.
I can imagine water taxis, a small marina, and a nice outdoor boardwalk too. The river is still to polluted for a swim-up Blackjack table, but maybe someday?
Comment by 47th Ward Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:13 pm
And you thought the addition to soldier field was ugly … hold my beer!
Comment by The Real Captain Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:13 pm
Sorry, forgot the caption.
“What’s that smell?”
Comment by 47th Ward Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:14 pm
Hooker Street is a few blocks north of here.
Comment by 47th Ward Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:17 pm
“If you don’t pay your gambling debts in Chicago you end up in the river anyway, so consider this shall we say serendipitous…”
Comment by Ron Burgundy Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:19 pm
“The town will never be the same. After the vote passed, and it finally was happening, big corporations bid to get a piece. Look at it, it looks like Disneyland. And while the kids head to the lakefront… or Lollapalooza, Mommy and Daddy drop the house payments and the property tax money on the poker slots.
After a few bids got knocked out of the box… special treatment or not… the city wanted a bunch of stuff tore down, practically every area around that riverfront. And where did the money come from to rebuild the neighborhood? It’s not from the parking meters, but maybe from this casino…”
Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:19 pm
Lightfoot bets on Bally’s to revere City’s financial flow.
Comment by Amalia Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:23 pm
oops, reverse….
Comment by Amalia Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:24 pm
I meant reverse.
Comment by Amalia Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:24 pm
Rich, you used an outdated rendering. This is the current one: https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/5/5/23058317/chicago-casino-ballys-lightfoot-selection-river-west-tribune-site
Comment by Disappointed Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:25 pm
Time warp: 1970s Las Vegas casino appears in Chicago
Comment by City Guy Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:27 pm
The race to the bottom intensified today as Chicago bid farewell to Boeing and welcomed a Disneyland of depravity to the riverfront.
Comment by Captain Obvious Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:28 pm
Heart attack claims Blair Kamin, famed architect critic
by Maureen O’Donnell, Sun-Times
Comment by Yellow Dog Democrat Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:28 pm
===you used an outdated rendering===
The one you linked to appears to be just a close-up
Comment by Rich Miller Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:29 pm
Less unseemly than Biff Tannen’s Pleasure Paradise Casino Hotel?
Comment by Ogle-Lee Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:29 pm
Any other Tribune offices we can get rid of?
Comment by One hand //ing Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:36 pm
Scientology takes Chicago.
Comment by new kid on the block Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:40 pm
Eat your heart out, Friends of the Parks
Comment by NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:41 pm
“Maxis sets new standard for 1993 with SimCity 2000”
– MrJM
Comment by MisterJayEm Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:42 pm
I’m with Ald Brendan Reilly on this — you’ve got one bite of the apple, make sure the location makes sense. Explore South and West side locations, or the McCormick Place, before areas like River North that don’t need economic boosts and are congested.
Comment by here we go Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:43 pm
= The one you linked to appears to be just a close-up=
I think you might need new glasses rich.
To the post:
“Tired of relying on a complicated and slow taxation process for revenue, the city unveiled plans for hundreds of new terminals designed to quickly and efficiently relieve the middle class and working poor of their savings.”
Comment by Wonky Kong Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:44 pm
This looks like an expensive boondoggle…
Comment by AnonymousFool Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:50 pm
“Chicago Casino: One way or another, you are going to leave everything that was in your wallet here.”
Comment by Crash Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:51 pm
“Wait a minute. You mean to tell me that the money we’re robbing is bein’ robbed? That somebody’s robbing from us? We go through all this trouble, and somebody’s robbin’ us?”
- Bally’s, on the new terms of the license
Comment by Oswego Willy Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:56 pm
Actually Al, that symbol is in City Hall. I mean if an indictment can say a thousand words, what do four or five - or nine since 2019 - say…
- Al - Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 3:44 pm:
A symbol of moral decay.
Comment by Just a guy Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 4:00 pm
Ace Rothstein’s Homecoming
Comment by Google Is Your Friend Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 4:00 pm
To quote Ralphie (from A Christmas Story), “The soft glow of electric sex”
Comment by Jocko Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 4:04 pm
Le-Go of Your Moneyland opens on the riverfront.
Comment by Anon221 Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 4:06 pm
Wonder if there’ll be a Dome of the Sea in the Chicago casino? A nod to the old days in Vegas and the Dunes.
Comment by Rudy’s teeth Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 4:09 pm
Your usual table, Mr. Papagiorgio?
Comment by 47th Ward Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 4:20 pm
Can you also build one for Springfield? Maybe build that instead of a sports complex?
Comment by NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 4:26 pm
@Rich: I think Wonky Kong’s right. The rendering you shared shows a rectilinear tower, whereas the one at the Sun-Times shows one with a more elliptical cross-section.
Not sure people are going to want to dip their feet in the Chicago River, as in the new rendering, unless they’ve just made a bet on how quickly they can get sick.
Comment by Benjamin Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 4:26 pm
“Welcome to the Project Labor Agreement Casino”.
I am pretty convinced this site was picked because the other two didn’t have PLA’s in place. I am sure the mayor will be constantly reminding labor of her casino choice while she is scrambling for their endorsements.
Comment by Been There Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 4:27 pm
And you thought Vegas was tacky.
Comment by Manchester Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 4:35 pm
Wow, a lot of haters out there. I actually think it looks pretty cool. I do happen to enjoy going to a casino every now and then though.
Comment by Hannibal Lecter Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 4:36 pm
Start the Corruption Clock; there’s a new business coming to town with money. How long before somebody gets indicted by the Feds related to this project?
Hope Bally’s got their projections right, or they’re gonna be losing money in no time on this one.
Comment by thisjustinagain Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 4:44 pm
“I think I am the Bally table king” - Mayor Lightfoot.
Comment by lake county democrat Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 4:54 pm
The Tribbies final act of cynicism and contempt. Looking at you R. Bruce Dold. You and your editorial board built this.
Comment by West Sider Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 4:56 pm
Coming to Chicago: Biff Tannen’s Pleasure Paradise Casino & Hotel
Comment by Tony DeKalb Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 5:05 pm
Hey, it’s a casino. Who cares what it looks like?
The good stuff is inside.
Comment by Bruce( no not him) Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 5:09 pm
One look and Boeing took flight
Comment by Flapdoodle Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 5:20 pm
Bally’s Riverfront Affront
Comment by Tear One Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 6:03 pm
= Who cares what it looks like? =
People who aren’t inside, and have to look at it.
Comment by JoanP Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 6:13 pm
Kayak to the casino.
Comment by Three Dimensional Checkers Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 6:29 pm
Lori repeated several times today how the revenue from the casino will fund the cities public pensions. The upfront money from the casino went from 25 to 40 million overnight. And not one cent of that windfall has yet been pledged to pay down the cities pension obligations. There’s a potential $40 million windfall here for Chicago’s taxpayers yet the mayor has not yet dedicated one cent of that revenue to the pension funds. Pensions are a promise Mayor. Keep yours.
Comment by In the room Thursday, May 5, 22 @ 8:00 pm
Pat Quinn’s Worst Nightmare (IIRC he didn’t want to expand gaming while Governor, worried that it would cause Illinois to turn into another Vegas).
Comment by NonAFSCMEStateEmployeeFromChatham Friday, May 6, 22 @ 8:35 am