Illinois casinos produce $192.8m revenue for August, increases 10.8%

The Illinois Gaming Board has reported the state’s total casino results for the month of August, as commercial operators generated nearly $192.8m of slot machine and table game revenue, representing an increase of 10.8%. 

Rivers Casino accounted for most revenue of any land-based operator in Illinois by a wide margin with $46.3m, having increased 10.6%. No other operator in Illinois generated over $20m, although Wind Creek Chicago reported $19.8m of revenue and grew 16.2%. 

The Illinois regulator reported $146.6m of electronic gaming device (EGD) revenue for August, representing an increase of 7%, while table games produced nearly $46.2m of revenue and rose 24.6% year-over-year. 

Hollywood Casino Aurora and Hard Rock Casino Rockford generated August revenues of $16.6m and $13.8m, respectively, equating to growth of 77% and 5.9%. The Joliet counterpart to Hollywood Casino reported $13.2m of revenue for August, having increased 18.4%. 

Bally’s Chicago managed to account for just over $12.8m of Illinois’ total casino revenue during August and rose 14%, while Grand Victoria Casino produced $12.3m of revenue but fell 2.3%. 

Full House Resorts Illinois and Harrah’s Joliet Casino & Hotel reported respective August 2026 revenues of nearly $11.4m and $10.4m, representing an increase of 4% for the Full House Resorts property but a decrease of 5.7% for the latter. 

Tax allocations during August included just over $48.1m issued to the State of Illinois and $12.3m to the respective local communities in which the properties are located. 

On October 2, an Illinois Federal District court granted preliminary injunction motions from Kalshi, Coinbase and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), representing the first victory for prediction market entities in nearly six months.

In April, a Third Circuit Court in Philadelphia ruled in favor of Kalshi by declaring the CFTC maintained exclusive jurisdiction over sports event contracts and preempted New Jersey’s gaming laws.

Following the Illinois ruling, however, Wallach Legal Founder Daniel Wallach believes an “intra-circuit split” was created with a previous decision handed down in Wisconsin that moved two questions concerning Tribal gaming authority toward the Seventh Circuit.