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Churchill Downs' CEO Thursday discussed plans for the expansion of Rivers Casino in Des Plaines, the introduction of slots or table games at Arlington Park Racecourse in Arlington Heights, and pursuit of one of Illinois' six new casino licenses allowed under the state's new gambling expansion bill.
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Among these goals, CEO Bill Carstanjen was most specific about those for Rivers Casino during a conference call regarding Churchill Downs' second-quarter results.
The company acquired a 61% share of the Des Plaines casino in March.
'Gov. Pritzker signed the Illinois gaming expansion bill in late June, which among other things gives Rivers the right to expand from 1,200 gaming positions to 2,000, and gives Arlington Park the right to install up to 1,200 gaming positions,' Carstanjen said. 'Rivers notified the Illinois Gaming Board last week that it intends to implement all 800 additional positions that are permitted.'
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Such an increase would require not only a licensing fee of $24 million, but the physical expansion of both the casino building itself and its parking garage as well as the additional capital investment to do so, Carstanjen said.
Nevertheless, Rivers Casino would be able to increase its number of 'gaming positions' by approximately 200 to 250 without such a physical expansion of the building and will be working with the Illinois Gaming Board to determine what it permissible in the shorter term, he added.
'Rivers will also pay the $10 million licensing fee in early 2020 to obtain an Illinois sports wagering license and will construct a sportsbook within its existing footprint,' Carstanjen said. 'All of this is very, very exciting.'
He explained that he couldn't yet be as specific about the plans for Arlington Park but soon would be.
'We have until the end of August to submit to the state any request to add gaming positions,' Carstanjen said. 'We will certainly provide our full answer within that time frame but will not do so today.'
Asked whether such growth at Rivers Casino as a hotel were possible, Carstanjen said such things made more sense to think about now than they did when the facility was locked into the gaming capacity it had before.
He also said more details would soon come regarding Churchill Downs' participation in the bid for one of the state's new casino licenses.
Des Plaines Mayor Matt Bogusz could not be reached for comment and Des Plaines City Manager Mike Bartholomew declined comment Thursday evening regarding Churchill Downs' expansion plans at Rivers Casino.
Rosemont will get $2.8 million in a settlement resolving a long-running dispute over the failed Emerald Casino bid.
The payout represents a fraction of what the village sought -- at least $45 million -- from six former Emerald officers as part of a bankruptcy proceeding.
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The town spent another $10 million in legal fees over the last two decades, as its attorneys sought to recoup construction costs mostly related to the village's building of a 7-level, 8,500-space parking garage for a casino that never materialized.
That Williams Street garage today serves the 200,000-square-foot Parkway Bank Park village entertainment district, much of it on the site envisioned for the casino. The garage has unused elevator shafts that were intended to transfer casino money to armored vehicles.
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'We were in a negative position cash-wise,' said Mayor Brad Stephens. 'But we have a parking garage as an asset. We were never going to recoup the legal fees, but it's better than getting nothing.'
'We were handed lemons and made some pretty tasty lemonade,' he said of the entertainment district, which opened in 2012.
The settlement comes from a pool of money secured by a bankruptcy trustee, as ordered by a federal judge in 2014. The judge ruled that six former Emerald officers owed creditors $272 million for losing the company's gambling license, after they failed to comply with Illinois Gaming Board rules and regulations.
The casino site along the Tri-State Tollway was a flurry of construction activity in 2001 when regulators started investigating allegations of mob ties of potential Emerald investors. The state eventually revoked the corporation's gambling license after determining company officials lied about investors and withheld other key information they were required to disclose.
Meanwhile, the state's 10th gambling license ended up going to the operators of Rivers Casino, across the street from Rosemont in Des Plaines.
Of 100 different creditors, only a few are left, many having been paid by Emerald's bankruptcy trustee through previous settlements.
There are still some unresolved claims in the lawsuit originally filed in June 2002 by the village and contractors. That includes a claim from the general contractor, which was a partnership between Degen & Rosato Construction Co. and Power Construction.
Stephens said the village could have gone to trial on its claims related to the parking garage, but there was a risk of not getting any money, so officials agreed to settle.