Push for Arlington Park Again 

The question of whether or not slot machines are coming to Arlington Park is never a closed book. You can see this in the number of times that they try to bring them in. Time after time they come to the state with another plan to bring in the slot machines and it keeps getting shot down. It doesn’t seem to matter though, as they always have another plan waiting in the wings. 

The latest plan for slot machines would bring them into Arlington Park and the other horse racing tracks in the state. The plan would not only bring in slot machines to the state, but it would also bring in $31 billion worth of construction jobs. The idea is that the money that would come from the slot machines would be able to fund these jobs, as opposed to their first plan.  

Initially they left it up to the various communities to decide whether or not they wanted slot machines. They expected many of them to vote for them, and that money would go towards the public works project. However, with most of them deciding not to bring in the slot machines it left them in a bit of a bind money wise. Instead, now the lawmakers want to make it legal for the horse racing tracks to bring in slot machines and it would only be up to the tracks as to whether they brought them in or not. 

They said that the slot machine revenue would do a lot of good for the state construction plan, but it would also bring in thousands of much needed jobs. They all believe that this is a much better plan than bringing slot machines to neighborhood bars, where they could not really be regulated and there would be no one to watch out for the problem gambler. As the state already has to keep an eye on the gambling at the tracks, this would not be adding that much more to their responsibilities.

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