The licensed machines give 25 percent of their take to the state and 5 percent to local government. State legislators legalized video gambling and began to collect revenue six years ago. There is no difference.”īut there’s a significant difference for taxpayers.
That, to me, looks exactly like a video gambling machine. “They’re popping up everywhere,” he said in an interview at Bubbleland.
Jaime Andrade, who lives a few blocks from Bubbleland, said the laundromat is one of many businesses that have recently installed the machines in his district. The laundromat attendant took the receipt, disappeared behind a door, and quickly returned with cash winnings.ĭemocratic state Rep. One of those machines issued a receipt to a reporter who placed a bet and won. On Chicago’s Northwest Side, the Bubbleland coin laundromat at Elston and Kimball has three sweepstakes machines in a corner near the entrance.
