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Hot Springs also has a storied history in casino gambling. For decades, illegal casinos operated openly in Hot Springs until being shut down in the 1960s. Oaklawn now is the only place in the city of about 35,000 residents where casino gambling is allowed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Hot Springs is in Central Arkansas, about an hour southwest of Little Rock.<\/p>\n
Among the notorious mobsters who vacationed there in the city’s illegal-gambling heyday were Al Capone, Charles \u201cLucky\u201d Luciano, and Benjamin \u201cBugsy\u201d Siegel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
With fewer people gambling in the spring, tax collections from Arkansas casinos fell sharply. But the numbers have been on the upswing in recent months. Since coronavirus infection rates began to spike in mid-March, wagering at the state\u2019s three casinos declined by a combined $1.4 billion. The casinos are Southland Casino Racing in West Memphis, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":149170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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