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The Empress Casino and its plaster sphinx
1992
Empress Drive, Joliet, Illinois
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Investors led by T.J. Lambrecht opened one of the first riverboat casinos in Illinois here on 16 June 1992 and themed the whole thing Egyptian, with pyramids on the roof and a full-size sphinx out front. It ran for seventeen years. Fire destroyed the complex in March 2009.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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