New front opens in City Council battle over video gambling – Chicago Sun-Times

Ald. Anthony Napolitano said he insisted on Thursday’s vote which prohibited ward-by-ward bans, to prevent Johnson from blowing a hole in the $16.6 billion, 2026 budget approved by a City Council majority that rejected Johnson’s corporate head tax. That alternative budget assumed that Chicago would generate $6.8 million by licensing newly legalized video gambling terminals across the city.