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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
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Mitchell Armentrout

Bally’s casino at Medinah Temple will ‘secure Chicago’s fiscally strong and vibrant future,’ Johnson says

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Soo Kim, chairman of the board of directors at Bally’s Corporation, looks on as Mayor Brandon Johnson speaks Tuesday during a ribbon-cutting ceremony at Bally’s Casino Chicago at Medinah Temple. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

Mayor Brandon Johnson on Tuesday invited gamblers in Chicago and beyond to come to the table at the city’s first legal casino. 

“To all of our residents and Illinoisans and everyone else: please come and — responsibly — spend your money at this casino,” Johnson said outside Bally’s new gambling venue at Medinah Temple, which started operating last month at 600 N. Wabash Ave. 

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