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How to decide? How to decide? This is the question that has to be running through the heads of those in Illinois these days. Arlington Park wants slot machines on their premises, and quite frankly, so do a lot of other people. They believe that if slot machines were legalized at Arlington Park that the whole state will benefit from them – and it is true, they will. It just depends on your definition of how much you expect to benefit.

When the state decided to bring in slot machines for the bars and restaurants, there was no discussion. Counties were told to be prepared that 45,000 slot machines were coming to their state, and that if they had any questions they could ask them after they were already legalized. However, as they quickly saw, more than 40 of the governmental bodies that have the option of bringing in slot machines have voted against them.

This means that all of that slot machine revenue that they were counting on coming in is not actually going to be flowing through their coffers. The race tracks insist that there will be more than $200 million that will come in from the machines, but this is not necessarily true. The opposition says that these numbers are inflated at best and that with the economy and the mind set of the state taken into consideration it is surely less than that.

Arlington Park may not even be able to bring in the slot machines as Arlington Heights has long been against approving them. This would make it difficult for them to plan on bringing in millions in revenue if their town will not allow the slot machines at all.

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