House Speaker Michael Madigan pushed the legislation but said afterward that closing the lucrative gaming industry is not his real goal.Madigan, D-Chicago, said the measure could be used as an opportunity to re-examine how the state grants casino licenses. He said the state should auction licenses to ensure "maximum benefit to the people of Illinois.

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The effort to legalize slot machines at Texas racetracks won new life when House Speaker Tom Craddick instructed a legislative committee to re-examine whether such a move might boost tourism and aid the struggling horse-racing industry.

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A local entrepreneur buys, restores and sells vintage slot machines. Though gambling is not legal in Wichita, one man has made a business out of playing with slot machines.

Don Creekmore has opened a Web-based business called Nation's Attic, where he buys vintage slot machines and restores and sells them.

Creekmore had been buying, selling and restoring the machines

There's a big push on Beacon Hill Wednesday to expand gambling in the Bay State to include slot machines added to local racetracks.

NewsCenter 5's Janet Wu reported that nearly 1,000 racetrack workers descended on the Statehouse Wednesday morning. They claim that they contribute more than $300 million to the state's economy annually, but that they could double that if slot machines are introduced.

Elmer Sherwin just might be the luckiest man on the planet.

As a U.S. Army airman during World War II, the Ohio native twice escaped death when his crew was pulled from separate ill-fated missions shortly before it was to leave the ground.

Others took off instead, he said, flying into midair collisions that killed everyone aboard. But Sherwin, now 92, lived to see another day.

Former Maine Governor Angus King is throwing his support behind an effort to ban slot machines in Maine.King says state law permits slot machines only in communities with professional harness-racing tracks that support slots.But he noted that there's currently a proposal for slot machines in Washington County and there's talk of slots at other locations.

If the Kansas Lottery has its way, thousands of people soon will be carrying small electronic slot machines - in their coat or shirt pockets.The lottery plans to begin selling the battery-powered devices in early November for $20 each. They're about the size of a credit card, though a little thicker.

Bally Gaming and Systems, a business unit of Alliance Gaming Corp., announced today that it has entered into an agreement with Boyd Gaming Corp. to provide a complete systems and bonusing solution covering nearly 5,000 slot machines at
two of its Las Vegas locations, the South Coast Hotel and Casino now under construction and expected to open in early 2006 and another major localsproperty.

The agreement calls for Bally Gaming and Systems to install complete slot and casino management systems at two of Boyd Gaming's Las Vegas properties and equip a total of nearly 5,000 slot machines, including 2,450 slot machines at the South Coast, with Bally iVIEW interactive touch-screen displays and the
new Bally Power Bonusing(TM) technology.

Coinless Slots On A Roll : Mohegan Sun Joins The Paper Ticket Revolution

Once as common as a Wayne Newton show on the Las Vegas Strip, that Pavlovian ker-clink! of quarters into the slot machine tray will soon slide into gambling history.

Mohegan Sun is joining casinos across the land in switching to slot machines that disgorge winning tickets, not piles of coins.

A recorded version of that distinctive sound will remain, but those luminous coins cascading into the tray will be gone as one of the world's largest casinos turns to coinless slots, recalibrating its 6,000 machines over the next year to spit out pieces of paper instead of metal.