Video gambling's biggest winner
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The Big Story
Tue. Mar 3, 2020
Accel Entertainment bills itself as the regulatory compliant video gambling company in Illinois. Emails and thousands of pages of documents obtained by ProPublica Illinois paint a different picture, one of a deep-pocketed company maneuvering around an inadequate regulatory system to become the largest video gambling operator in the state.
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Beginner’s Luck: How One Video Gambling Company Worked the Odds and Took Over a State
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Funded in part by his wealthy family and aided by a personal connection at the Illinois Gaming Board, Andrew Rubenstein’s Accel Entertainment now owns a third of the state’s video gambling machines, making it the biggest video gambling operator in the nation.
by Jason Grotto
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More From This Investigation
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How a Video Gambling Company Helped Bankroll Local Politicians
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And updates on the creation of new casinos around the state.
by Logan Jaffe
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From Truck Stops to Elections, a River of Gambling Money Is Flooding Waukegan
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Owners of one of Illinois’ largest video gambling companies are behind efforts to influence city politics, expand gambling and build a casino near land they control.
by Jason Grotto
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As Illinois Expands Gambling, It Will Also Try to Determine How Many Gambling Addicts It Has
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Illinois will finally conduct a thorough study of the gambling problem in the state — the first such survey in nearly 30 years. It said it will spend more money to treat addiction, too.
by Dan Mihalopoulos, WBEZ Chicago, and Jason Grotto, ProPublica Illinois
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Anatomy of the Gambling Bill
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Illinois is going to dramatically expand gambling. Here’s the bill and what it means.
by Jason Grotto and David Eads
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Let’s Break Down Some Numbers in Illinois’ New Gambling Expansion Bill
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Big numbers reflect big legislation — one that got pushed through at the last minute, with little debate or analysis.
by Logan Jaffe
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Illinois Is Poised to Become the Gambling Capital of the Midwest
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And like the state’s last gambling expansion, in 2009, the massive new bill could bring trouble.
by Jason Grotto, ProPublica Illinois, and Dan Mihalopoulos, WBEZ Chicago
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How Has the “Crack Cocaine of Gambling” Affected Illinois? The State Hasn’t Bothered to Check.
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Since video gambling went live in 2012, more than 30,000 video slot and poker machines have been installed in the state and gamblers have lost more than $5 billion. Yet Illinois has failed to address the issue of gambling addiction in any meaningful way.
by Jason Grotto and Sandhya Kambhampati, ProPublica Illinois, and Dan Mihalopoulos, WBEZ Chicago
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How Illinois Bet on Video Gambling and Lost
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Lawmakers said legalizing video gambling would generate billions of dollars for the state. Instead, it’s proved to be little more than a money grab.
by Jason Grotto and Sandhya Kambhampati, ProPublica, and Dan Mihalopoulos, WBEZ Chicago
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How We Analyzed Video Gambling in Illinois
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Here’s how we conducted an in-depth look at the rapid expansion of video gambling in the state and its financial and social costs.
by Sandhya Kambhampati and Jason Grotto
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