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This is the tinley park amphitheatre, not the actual casino. Very nice place to work where you make great friends Usher/Operations (Former Employee) - Tinley Park, IL - March 9, 2019 While the hours are grueling and the days become nights very fast, it is a great job for someone who loves people and music. Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre (originally World Music Theatre and formerly New World Music Theatre, Tweeter Center and First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre) is an outdoor music venue located in Tinley Park, Illinois that opened in 1990.
Gov. J.B. Pritzker halted a proposed racetrack and casino in Tinley Park after it was revealed that a gambling operator pushing for the project has deep real estate ties to a banking executive whose alleged affiliation with the mob helped kill the Emerald casino nearly two decades ago.
Gold Rush Gaming owner Rick Heidner has several active real estate partnerships with Parkway Bank & Trust chairman Rocco Suspenzi through shell companies, according to an investigation by the Chicago Tribune. Heidner and the Suspenzi family have borrowed millions from Parkway Bank to buy commercial properties in several states, the paper found.
Suspenzi, his son Jeffrey, and a reputed mob figure were exposed by the FBI in 2003 for concealing their ownership stake in the Emerald casino project, which had its license revoked. Parkway Bank also made a seven-figure loan to another alleged mobster involved in the casino project, according to the Tribune.
Pritzker informed village officials this week that it would not sell state-owned land to the village for the “racino,” though he didn’t cite the Tribune’s investigation into Heidner’s business relationship with Suspenzi.
On Tuesday, Heidner testified under oath that Illinois Gaming Board investigators had full knowledge of his business ties to a convicted bookie and Suspenzi. He also denied having any affiliation with the mob.
In addition to the “racino,” Heidner has proposed a hotel and entertainment complex at the site of the former Tinley Park Mental Health Center.
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Heidner may have bigger problems to deal with: his name came up during the FBI’s sweep of Democratic state Sen. Martin Sandoval’s Capitol office last month, and separately, a search warrant of McCook Mayor Jeff Tobolski’s office.
Parkway Bank, meanwhile, has been rumored to be for sale since at least 2017. Parkway is the second-largest privately held bank in the area, with $2.7 billion in assets. But 84 percent of its $2 billion in loans is in commercial real estate, with over 18 percent issued to affiliates of just one company — Inland Real Estate Group. Another aggressive real estate lender, Bank of the Ozarks, was reportedly interested in buying Parkway but didn’t make an offer. Earlier this year, Byline Bank began negotiations to merge with Parkway but it’s unclear where things stand now. [Chicago Tribune] — James Kleimann
Bets remain open for the site of a future Chicago casino, but proposals are already emerging for gaming venues at a handful of south suburban sites.
Legislation awaiting Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s signature would create a casino license for the south suburbs and allow a combined racetrack and casino in the region as well, according to the Chicago Sun-Times.
Political and business leaders in Tinley Park are promoting a plan to build the so-called “racino” on the site of the closed 280-acre Tinley Park Mental Health Center campus. Village officials are looking to partner with Rick Heidner, owner of Gold Rush Gaming, on the project..
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Officials East Hazel Crest and Homewood, meanwhile, are courting an out-of-town gaming operator to build a casino near the intersection of Halsted Street and the Tri-State Tollway. But a competing proposal would put the casino on a 58-acre plot of farmland in Lynwood and Ford Heights, near the intersection of Illinois 394 and U.S. 30.
The gambling expansion bill approved by lawmakers would create six new casino licenses, allow three existing racetracks to add casino games and allow the creation of two new “racinos.” One of the casinos would go in Chicago, and Mayor Lori Lightfoot said her staff would study potential sites before getting behind any specific proposal.
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The new casinos could create competition for Neil Bluhm, managing partner of Walton Street Capital, who is also chairman of the Rush Street gaming company. Rush Street owns the Rivers Casino in northwest suburban Des Plaines but so far does not plan to pursue any of the new casino licenses, according to the Sun-Times. [Chicago Sun-Times] — Alex Nitkin