It’s a banner day for back-door dealings and handshakes with a wink and a nod. Rosemont gets the casino over needy Waukegan, and political fat cats are high-fiving each other all the way to the bank (“Rosemont wins casino,” Page 1, March 15).
So much for the casino lifting economically depressed areas out of recession. So much for revitalizing a once proud and thriving community. So much for the double-digit unemployment that cripples the already struggling minorities in the area. So much for the mob fears that kept the casino out of Rosemont in the first place. And so much for the license doing what it was intended to do–helping the needy. Somewhere in Lake County, a single mother is weeping, knowing the decent wage she was dreaming of for her family is now gone.
If the lawmakers of this state have any sense of decency and fairness, they will step in to halt this injustice. I know I won’t be driving to Rosemont to line its pockets.
