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Peoria County Board to allow video gaming
Peoria Journal Star
June 10, 2010
By Gary Childs
PEORIA - Video gaming's on in unincorporated Peoria County.
Rather than ban it, the Peoria County Board voted 12-4 on Thursday to regulate the activity that could raise $405,000 in revenue. "If we vote to ban the sin, all the social ills would still exist," board member Allen Mayer said before the vote was taken. "(Video gamblers) would just jump over to these other municipalities. "I support imposing a sin tax rather than banning it." There are 53 establishments in unincorporated Peoria County that now will be eligible to have up to five video gaming machines each. Those include taverns that serve liquor by the drink.
"We would be putting businesses at a competitive disadvantage by banning it," board member Lynn Scott Pearson said. Bill Prather also was in the majority, noting "there have been some counties that have voted video gaming out that have voted it back in." To view the entire article, click here.  |
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