Click here to urge your legislators NOT to raise taxes on casinos!

Casinos inject more than $1 billion into the Illinois economy every year, with benefits that extend well beyond casinos themselves… more school funding … more money for local development projects… more work and jobs at businesses that supply goods and services to casinos.

A Better Deal for Illinois is a statewide campaign to sustain these economic engines in the face of a prohibitive new 50-percent top tax rate on gaming. This tax, the highest in the country by far, removes incentives for growth and investment.

The bottom line: A Better Deal for Illinois will generate more jobs and more economic investment in Illinois, and even more money will be available for education and local economic development than what is being generated right now.

This sound, fiscally responsible plan is supported by the Illinois Casino Gaming Association (ICGA), businesses, organizations and individuals across the state. Please join their effort and make yourself heard – your lawmakers are just a few mouse clicks away.

The goal is to remove two major hurdles to economic growth that exist only in Illinois. These hurdles put the state's casino industry at a serious disadvantage in relation to bordering states like Indiana, Missouri and Iowa.

A Better Deal for Illinois proposes to:

• lift limits on slots and games at existing casinos to generate more activity and tax revenue – Illinois is the only state in the nation with such limits.


• roll back the wagering tax to the previous level, which already was the highest in the country.

These two factors will clear the way for more than 1,000 new jobs and tens of millions of dollars in additional work for Illinois casino suppliers.

State legislators and the Governor need to hear from you that it is important to enact new legislation that will encourage the continued growth of a valuable Illinois industry.

Please click here to make your voice count in Springfield.