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What happens to that statistic if you subtract the areas where this is not legal (the entire city of Chicago - actually looks like all of Cook County, and I hav
by sailfast 8y ago
What happens to that statistic if you subtract the areas where this is not legal (the entire city of Chicago - actually looks like all of Cook County, and I haven't seen any of these machines inside the county)? My guess would be that stat goes up quite a bit.
- kevinmchugh 8y agoThere's video gambling in some of the southwest suburbs. Palos Hills, Orland Park. Those are both Cook.
- tptacek 8y agoAlso in Berwyn, which is almost (by a couple blocks) adjacent to the city.
- sailfast 8y agoGood to know! Hard to tell from their map and I didn't remember any county-wide ordinances. Thanks.
- robohoe 8y agoWhich are both hard to get to without public transport that one sees in Chicago proper (PACE barely counts). A lot of folks in the city don’t own a car. At the same time those same folks are probably smarter than to spend money at gambling parlors.
- tptacek 8y agoOnce again: you can get to Berwyn via the Blue or Pink lines, as well as Cicero, which is directly adjacent to Chicago. Both allow video gaming. Both are decidedly middle/lower-middle class areas. It's just not the case that video gaming isn't present in Chicagoland.
- kevinmchugh 8y agopalos and orland are pretty reachable by metra, though the times aren't ideal. Once you're there my memory is that it's walkable enough to a bar with gambling. It'd also be like a $5 uber/lyft from the metra. My suspicion is that urban gamblers mostly take the blue line to the shuttle to Rivers.
- kasey_junk 8y agoHorseshoe runs something like hourly shuttles to Chinatown.
- xigency 8y agoWe definitely have them in the northwest suburbs, most of which are inside of Cook County. I still think that is a good question to ask given Chicago has around 3 million residents.