Midwest Gaming & Entertainment LLC has just purchased the last casino license in Illinois. What other properties do they run and where are they located?

On your Question of the Day 12-28-08 about the Peppermill, I would like to offer the following: The question really shouldn't just apply to the Peppermill. There are many businesses along the Strip that occupy land every bit as valuable as the Peppermill’s. I have always wondered how some of these low-class shops could justify their annual profits, compared to what they would have out of the land value selling it. Simply put, the question is, "How can so many low-class businesses justify their profit versus what they would get selling the land to a entity who would upgrade the land into something worthwhile?"

How prevalent are hotel fees and resort amenity fees?

I have heard MGM has sold Treasure Island? Is that true?

"You've piqued our interest. Please give us a biography of Mojo, the company-mascot iguana. Any pictures available? And when is Little Mojo due? Or, as another reader put it: "If you've had one and only one iguana in the office for eight years, how in the hell did it get pregnant? Do the children resemble some other breed of animal? Is there ANYTHING that doesn't happen in Vegas?" Or: "So, who knocked up the iguana?"

The Las Vegas Valley is prone to flash floods. Have there been instances where transients were washed out of or drowned in the elaborate storm-drain system?

I live in Canada and found a tito cash ticket from my last trip to Las Vegas. The ticket is worn from being in my wallet (unnoticed) and is 11 months old. If I do not get back to Las Vegas, what, if anything can I do? I believe you answered this question awhile back, but I missed reading that answer. Thank you.

My wife is addicted to Diet Coke, to the point where we have to plan our trips around which casinos serve Coke products or someplace close to a "quickie mart" where she can buy Coke products. Why does it appear that Vegas is such a Pepsi-dominated town, and just for fun what volume (compared to a small ocean) of Coke or Pepsi is consumed in Vegas in a year?

Don't any of the pools on the Strip have an indoor pool? I would love to come in the winter, but I want to be able to swim.

I have been told that the "nuts" hand in no-limit Texas hold 'em originated when a gambler actually removed the nuts from his wagon to bet on his "winning hand." Is this true? If not true, where did the term origionate?