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A local casino on the way, in a state already awash in gambling

Take your pick. Or perhaps I should say, place your bets.

Where should the long-awaited south suburban casino be built? 

Homewood and East Hazel Crest, on Halsted Street just south of Interstate 80? Lynwood, on Glenwood Dyer Road just off I-394? Calumet City, adjacent to River Oaks Center? Matteson, on the northeast corner of U.S. Route 30 and Harlem Avenue? Or Crestwood, on Cal-Sag Road east of Cicero Avenue?

Are your palms sweating at the…

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