Under Gov. JB Pritzker, casinos and video and sports gambling have exploded across the state — and video poker could expand even more if and when it’s introduced in the city of Chicago.
Tasked with regulating all this is the Illinois Gaming Board, which reports to Pritzker and has struggled in recent years with a central task: ensuring the integrity of the billion-dollar industry and keeping people with ties to reputed organized crime figures out of it.
Now Pritzker plans to revamp the agency in a dramatic reorganization — but in a manner that would likely eliminate key aspects of public transparency that have existed for decades.
