A contractor hires a waste hauler with decades-old allegations of mob connections to work at the Bally’s Chicago casino construction site — and the Illinois Gaming Board apparently has no idea until asked about it by the Chicago Sun-Times.
Why is that, since the gaming board is the government agency tasked with regulating the casino industry across the state and ensuring the integrity of legal gambling here?
A measure of self-regulation — a reality for a slew of public agencies, from the Federal Aviation Administration to the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency — appears to be the explanation.
“Unlike active casinos where gambling operations are occurring, there are no agents stationed at the construction site,” a gaming board spokeswoman said, referring to the site of the Bally’s permanent casino.
