The newly-formed Greenway Entertainment Group is ready to launch a “first-class racino destination” on 80 acres of former landfill property in Chicago's Richton Park neighborhood, reports the Chicago Sun Times, provided that state Sen. Patrick Joyce is able to pass a bill eliminating Hawthorne Race Course's ability to veto any new track within 35 miles of its grandstand.
Hawthorne has not installed slot machines in the four years it has been legal to do so, with officials citing COVID-19 related delays; the Greenway project would include 1,200 slot machines and a harness racing track.
“We're ready to move forward since they [Hawthorne] apparently aren't. The horsemen can't wait much longer,” said Mike Campbell, the former president of the Illinois Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association, told the Chicago Sun Times. “We're trying to raise the phoenix from the ashes.”
Members of the Greenway group include Campbell, Roy Arnold, the former president of the shuttered Arlington International Racecourse, suburban developers Drew Daniels and Tom Walsh, plus an unspecified number of other investors.
Read more at the Chicago Sun Times.
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