More than twice the size of the Spirit of Peoria, a majestic riverboat sits docked in central Illinois, waiting to return to the river. The Casino Rock Island has been anchored at Hamm's Holiday ...

The Casino Rock Island riverboat ... future as an excursion boat in New Orleans. The former floating casino departed at daybreak Friday from a marina in Chillicothe, Illinois, where it has ...

The departures have helped business aboard the President, a large boat docked at Davenport, and Jumer`s Casino Rock Island, directly across the river in Illinois. Daniel Carmody, executive ...

The Jumer’s Casino boat, which was once docked in Rock Island, is described as being like a “ghost ship.” Relics left behind include everything from chairs to poker chips. In the YouTube ...

Despite cautious optimism by some riverboat casino operators ... start on Illinois. ”Almost everyone I`ve spoken to is talking 1992,” said Ron Nell, vice president of Rock Island Boatworks ...

ROCK ISLAND _ After years ... employed 400 laborers, and the casino has 700 full-time jobs. "When we first walked in here, everybody was blown away. The boat was nice, but it got kind of dingy ...

April 1, 1991 — Riverboat gambling is born in the Quad-Cities, two years after Iowa became the first state in the nation to legalize riverboat casino gaming. March 11, 1992 — The Rock ...

SPRINGFIELD - The process of selling Illinois' unused 10th casino license continues, and lawmakers are counting on the millions of dollars the sale is expected pump into the state's budget.

(AP) — A proposal to expand casino gambling in Illinois would put new casinos in ... gross receipts on the state's most lucrative boats are taxed at 50 percent. But if new casinos are introduced ...

It also needs approval from the Illinois Gaming ... t seek the meetings. ``They (casino officials) want to stay in Rock Island,'' he said, adding he wants the boat to stay in Rock Island.

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. --- The Illinois Gaming Board fined Jumer's Casino and Hotel in Rock Island $100,000 and suspended three of its top executives - including the president - for requiring employees ...