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Lawmakers, Emanuel push hard for Chicago casino

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Mayor Rahm Emanuel boosted his support for a Chicago casino this week by pledging 100 percent of revenue will go to schools.

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Karen Lingermuth of Niles plays the slots during a special VIP event at the new Rivers Casino in Des Plaines in 2011. A refined plan to add more casinos and slot machines in Illinois was approved by the Illinois Senate Wednesday.

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Visitors to the nation's third-largest city are usually spotted wandering the Magnificent Mile, snapping pictures of the Willis Tower and sampling Chicago-style deep dish pizza, but if some persistent Illinois lawmakers and Mayor Rahm Emanuel get their way, a glitzy casino would be on their agenda, too.