'We feel very confident that we have the votes to make sure that this gets over the hurdle,' Mayor Lightfoot said.
The first expected vote on Mayor Lori Lightfoot's push for Bally's to build a $1.74 billion casino in River West was called off on Friday, as aldermen continued to raise questions about the project, but the mayor is still hoping to get it approved by next week.
Lightfoot said her staff will be ready to answer questions from aldermen throughout the weekend, ahead of an expected vote on the casino plan on Monday. Tunney said he would be working with the mayor's office over the weekend to answer aldermen's concerns before a possible vote on Monday. "The City Council vote is not the end of the journey. It's an important milestone, to be sure, but it's not the end of the journey. We still have to present this to the Plan Commission, and get through some other regulatory groups here in the city, and then it will go to the Illinois Gaming Board," she said., has thrown his full support behind the proposal, three neighboring alderpersons – Brian Hopkins , Brendan Reilly , and Michele Smith are against the Bally's plan.
Bally's proposal calls for a $1.74 billion casino at the 30-acre Chicago Tribune Freedom Center publishing plant along the Chicago River near Halsted and Ohio streets. Also planned is the modernization of traffic signals directly at Halsted Street and Chicago Avenue, and also at Halsted and Erie streets and at Milwaukee Avenue, Ogden Avenue, and Chicago Avenue to the west.
According to a city evaluation report, Bally's expects to open the temporary casino at Medinah Temple in the second quarter of 2023, with the permanent casino likely to open by the first quarter of 2026. River North developer Albert Friedman donated $600,000 to Mayor Lightfoot's campaign the same day she narrowed casino bids from five to three.
"The last time we were given less than two weeks to vet and approve a deal, it blew up in our faces - and it was called the parking meter deal," he said. Lightfoot has said aldermen have had ample opportunity to weigh in on the casino proposals since they were first unveiled in November, including at community meetings organized for each bid, and multiple closed-door briefings with the mayor's team.
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