Articles filed under Sports Gambling
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Man who cooperated with feds against 'Uncle Mick' cuts deal
Apr 12, 2022 4:16 PM - Federal prosecutors struck a deal Tuesday with a key agent in a massive international gambling ring who cooperated with investigators and may now avoid a criminal conviction.
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Feder: David Kaplan to host new weeknight show on NBC Sports Chicago
Mar 28, 2022 10:38 AM - David Kaplan, a preeminent voice of sports in Chicago, is about to host a new Monday-through-Friday sports talk show on NBC Sports Chicago.
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Constable: Once a sporting distraction, gambling now the main event
Mar 15, 2022 8:03 AM - In 2002, I wrote a column suggesting gambling was a distraction from the enjoyment of sporting events. Twenty years later, I realize gambling is the enjoyment for many sports fans.
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Gambling board pulls plug on Russian sports betting
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Jim O'Donnell: Relaxed sports gaming rules in Illinois will add more madness to March
Mar 5, 2022 6:01 PM - Jim O'Donnell: You can now bet on Illinois colleges and universities if you do so at a bricks-and-mortar establishment.
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Now at max, Hawthorne seeks state law change to reopen more Arlington betting parlors
Feb 17, 2022 7:53 PM - Hawthorne Race Course Thursday picked up one more of Arlington Park's shuttered off-track betting parlors -- this one, in Rockford -- giving the Cicero racetrack its maximum 16 allowed under state statute. But there's legislation proceeding in Springfield this week that would remove that cap. -
Illinois gamblers bet nearly $61 million on Super Bowl
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Elmhurst resident wins $1.2 million from online sports betting app
Jan 14, 2022 8:44 AM - Elmhurst resident Marco Piemonte -- son of the late local car legend Al Piemonte -- didn't expect that his hobby of online sports betting would win him more than $1 million. But that's what happened this week. -
Divided state panel rejects request to keep open Arlington Park's OTBs
Dec 16, 2021 6:56 PM - A divided state panel Thursday denied Arlington Park and parent company Churchill Downs Inc.'s request to keep open their network of off-track betting parlors even though the racetrack is closed. -
Chicago lifts city ban on sports betting -- and imposes a 2% tax
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