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Originally Posted by SamInTheLoop
Precisely this. Obviously a certain segment of the customer base for a downtown casino will overlap with your Indiana/suburban/out-in-the-boonies casinos. However, on the whole, it will be a quite different market (not the destination/day-tripping/chain-smoking caricature) etc
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I've never been to a city that had a downtown casino and thought, "Oh let's pop in here for a bit!" To me any city that has a casino - flashy or otherwise - in or very near to the CBD has an air of desperation around it. . . like, oh boy, this used to be a place once!
A downtown casino in Chicago is best left to where the convention traffic is greatest as well as close proximity to Chinatown - where the bulk of local casino traffic will come from anyways. . . the logical choice is the McCormick Place Lakeside facility. . .
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