The Beloit casino will be the tribe’s seventh to go along with properties in Black River Falls, Madison, Nekoosa, Tomah, Wisconsin Dells, and Wittenberg.<\/p>\n
Last week, Democrat Tony Evers beat Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) to become the state’s governor-elect. And for the Ho-Chunk Nation, that means they have little to worry about amending their gaming compact with the state.<\/p>\n
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Under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, federally recognized tribes can operate Class I and II gaming on lands that have been taken into trust. However, for the all-important Class III gaming, which includes slot machines and most table games, tribes must reach gaming compacts with their respective states.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
“I would sign that agreement,” Evers told the Beloit Daily News<\/i> earlier this year. Ho-Chunk shares 5.5 percent of its net win with the state.<\/p>\n
Along with the casino floor’s 2,200 slot machines, plans for the Ho-Chunk resort in Beloit call for a hotel tower with 300 rooms, 40,000-square-foot indoor waterpark, five restaurants, retail shopping, concert venue, and conference space.<\/p>\n
Beloit is just north of the Wisconsin-Illinois border, and less than two hours from Chicago.<\/p>\n
Tribal Expansion<\/b><\/h2>\n Wisconsin doesn’t have commercial casinos, but its Native American gaming facilities are widespread and becoming increasingly saturated. There are nearly two-dozen tribal casinos presently in the state.<\/p>\n
The Beloit casino will become the second largest gaming resort in Wisconsin behind the Potawatomi Hotel & Casino in Milwaukee, which has 2,500 slot machines and 100 table games.<\/p>\n
Native American casinos continue to win large sums of cash. A report released last week by the American Gaming Association revealed that tribal venues account for 43.5 percent of the entire US gaming market<\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\nRoughly 500 Native American casino resorts employed 676,428 workers in 2016, and they were paid in excess of $36 billion. Additionally, the tribal venues contributed $15.2 billion in local, state, and federal taxes.<\/p>\n
Wisconsin casinos employed over 26,800 workers, and the gaming segment contributed more than $446 million in taxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A tribal casino planned for Beloit, Wisconsin, by the Ho-Chunk Indians is closer to receiving full authorization from the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). Late last week, the City of Beloit announced that the $405 million Native American casino resort is making progress on the federal level. Town officials say the development will soon be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":92379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13592,18456],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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