{"id":21560,"date":"2018-04-23T06:28:36","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T14:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=21560"},"modified":"2018-04-23T06:28:36","modified_gmt":"2018-04-23T14:28:36","slug":"quote-of-the-day-910","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-910\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In 2017 [<strong>Grand Victoria<\/strong>]\u00a0posted revenue of $168.7 million, up from <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2851\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Grand-Victoria-IL-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Grand-Victoria-IL-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Grand-Victoria-IL-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Grand-Victoria-IL.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>$163.5 million in 2016, according to the <strong>Illinois Gaming Board<\/strong>. Its revenue has steadily declined since 2007 after a peak of $436.7 million, and employees have decreased from 2,500 to 800.&#8221; &#8212; <em>the decline and fall of Grand Victoria, red-headed stepchild of the MGM Resorts International family. Small wonder MGM <a href=\"https:\/\/ggbnews.com\/article\/tropicana-sold-in-three-way-deal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">elected to sell it<\/a> to <strong>Eldorado Resorts<\/strong>, which has a bit of a challenge in front of it.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In 2017 [Grand Victoria]\u00a0posted revenue of $168.7 million, up from $163.5 million in 2016, according to the Illinois Gaming Board. Its revenue has steadily declined since 2007 after a peak of $436.7 million, and employees have decreased from 2,500 to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-910\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14,199,58,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21561,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21560\/revisions\/21561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}