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City of Lincoln Exploring Limiting Video Gaming Machines

It's an oversaturated market and a central Illinois community could begin limiting how many more they're going to allow.

 

Lincoln Mayor Tracy Welch indicates the video gambling machines are becoming too disproportionate to the population in his community and is discussing with the Liquor Commission limiting how many more get installed.

 

 

According to Mayor Welch, the comments regarding the advertisements and even the number of gaming devices in the community are drawing the notice of folks returning and passing through the community.

 

 

The Mayor says for every one terminal, there are 48 people which is much lower than a lot of communities in Illinois. 

 

 

Mayor Welch says the City of Lincoln brings in about $400,000 a year in the tax revenue from the machines. 

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