Village Board Ponders Impact of Video Gaming on Oak Lawn
Oak Lawn Village Board weighs pros and cons of video gambling machines and influx of liquor license applications.
Existing businesses that serve liquor as well as new businesses coming into town are making a run at Lady Luck by applying for video gaming licenses in Oak Lawn. Sign up for the Oak Lawn Patch newsletter and breaking news alerts. Before the mayor and trustees could deliberate on a liquor license for a restaurant group seeking to open a video gaming café in Oak Lawn, anti-gambling crusader Kathy Gilroy urged village board members to reverse their stance on allowing electronic gaming machines in the community. “Did you intend to invite one-armed bandits to Oak Lawn or did you allow them in response to long established, liquor-serving businesses,” Gilroy said during public comments. “Would you allow more liquor licenses in Oak Lawn to …
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4:21 pm on Monday, January 28, 2013
J. J., legal gambling machines are obviously going to pay out more money than "for-amusement-only" machines because FAO machines were being used for illegal purposes if they paid out any money at all. more ›