The Aurora City Council Tuesday night approved plans for the new $360 million Hollywood Casino Aurora.
Aldermen voted 10-1, in two separate votes, to approve both a rezoning and final plans to pave the way for the casino to move from downtown to an almost 19-acre site along Farnsworth Avenue, south of Bilter Road, east of Church Road and just north of the interchange with Interstate 88.
The move, which was seen by both city and casino officials as necessary to the survival of the casino, comes in the 30th year since the casino first opened in downtown Aurora.
