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Rosemont Ups Ante in Casino Bid

ROSEMONT, Illinois – As reported by the Chicago Sun-Times: "The village of Rosemont, in trying to snare a casino, has long promised to give away 80 percent of future casino tax money to other suburbs.

"On Tuesday, Rosemont went all in.

"In a letter to Illinois Gaming Board Chairman Aaron Jaffe, Rosemont Mayor Donald E. Stephens pledged to give away all the local casino tax money -- estimated at about $20 million a year.

"Tuesday's gambit could mean very little because of those ongoing legal battles as well as the concerns of Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, who said last year: 'There appear to be connections that Don Stephens and the city of Rosemont had to organized crime.'…"

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