Par-A-Dice Hotel Casino

Location: East Peoria
Year opened: 1992
Employees: 933
Visitors in 2005: 1.5 million
2005 total Illinois tax revenue generated: $37.4 million
2005 local share of tax revenue: $8.1 million

The local share of tax money from the Par-A-Dice Hotel Casino has funded:

• Renovations to East Port Marina
  
• Building of East Side Centre, a 102-acre recreation and sports complex
  
• Upgrade of 911 emergency equipment
  
• Purchase and installation of GIS and City Watch community telephone systems
  
• Publication and distribution of city newsletter
  
• Purchase of new police vehicles, fire trucks, and public works department trucks
  
• Economic development for construction of Riverside Park bike trail
  
• Renovations to city streets, sewers, and water system

Par-A-Dice Hotel Casino's charitable donations to the community include:

• Donation of $150,000 to the Bradley University endowment over the next three years
  
• Donations to Proctor Hospital
  
• Casino Employee Helping Hand Food Drive Casino employees from across Illinois participated in this annual food drive. As a result of the casino employees' efforts over 56,000 non-perishable food items were collected for local food pantries

  "Most of the city's share of the local gaming tax supported large capital improvements of regional significance, such as East Port Marina and EastSide Centre Recreational Complex. Without gaming tax revenues, the city could not be pursuing a redevelopment of a huge, abandoned industrial site, which shall have a dramatic impact upon the economy of the entire metropolitan area."
  -East Peoria Mayor Charles Dobbelaire

For more information on the Par-A-Dice Hotel Casino, visit www.par-a-dice.com.