Efforts to transform the home of the Chicago Tribune’s printing plant and newsroom into a $1.74 billion Bally’s casino and resort is one step away from winning final approval from Chicago officials.
The proposed casino is set to be built on the Chicago Tribune printing plant and newsroom site near Chicago Avenue and Halsted Street.
Burnett, who is a member of both the Plan Commission and the Zoning Committee, said Tuesday he was confident that Bally’s would fulfill promises to hire people from his West Side ward, which includes the former Cabrini-Green public housing complex. Alds. Brian Hopkins , Anthony Beale , Raymond Lopez and Brendan Reilly voted against the proposal during the meeting of the Zoning Committee.In May, all four alderpeople voted against the proposal backed by Lightfoot to grant Bally’s the right to build and operate the casino.
City Council members have repeatedly heard impassioned pleas from representatives of Chicago’s powerful labor unions, who said the 3,000 construction jobs the casino is expected to create every year and the 3,000 permanent jobs were desperately needed in the hospitality industry that has yet to recover from the economic catastrophe triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bally’s has put together a consortium — the Chicago Community Builder’s Collective — of design and construction firms owned by Black, Latino and female Chicagoans to work on the project.
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