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Court Crushes Hopes

There are those that have been hanging onto the idea that they might actually stand a chance of seeing slot machines spread across the state. Most of these hopeful citizens are probably the slot machine manufacturers as they were hoping that Illinois would see how important it is to bring in the slot machines and bring in those millions of dollars to help fix their budget. However, the fact that they would be making millions of dollars for selling the slot machines does not go unnoticed.

But a state appellate court has ruled this week that the bill that would have allowed the slot machines to come in was unconstitutional and could not move forward as planned. They said that the bill violated the state’s single subject rule as it had several things that it was looking to do. It would have legalized slot machines at bars, taverns, truck stops, veterans’ halls, fraternal organizations, etc. The slot machine providers were excited as the bill would have brought them in a lot of money, especially since some of those locations would have been in Chicago and they know that they would have fared well there.

Experts say that Governor Pat Quinn will most likely appeal the ruling, but even if they are approved they have managed to delay the shipments of the slot machines once approved well into next year. This is bad news for the slot machine manufacturers as they were hoping for those slot machine sales to be on this years’ books.

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