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Harrah's Joliet and the Illinois riverboat bargain
1993
Des Plaines River, Joliet, Illinois
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Illinois legalised casino gambling in 1990 on one condition: the tables had to float. Harrah's opened its first riverboat here on 4 May 1993 with a 210-foot vessel called the Northern Star. Joliet, a steel town that had lost its mills, ended up with two of the state's earliest boats.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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