City planning officials have signed off on Bally’s revised site plan for a casino in the River West neighborhood after the gambling company was forced to fold on an initial design that would have damaged major water pipes.
City Zoning Administrator Patrick Murphey on Thursday approved Bally’s tweaked first phase of construction, slated to begin this summer on the 30-acre site at Chicago Avenue and Halsted Street, which will now see a 100-room hotel placed above the casino.
The hotel was originally supposed to go on the north end of the plot near the Chicago River, with a massive 400-room hotel tower slated to be added on top in a second phase of construction.
