{"id":24618,"date":"2019-08-02T06:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-08-02T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=24618"},"modified":"2019-08-02T06:00:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T14:00:47","slug":"quote-of-the-day-1085","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1085\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The sentiment to put the casino in a struggling neighborhood, away from downtown, is well-intended. Too many South and West side communities have emptied due to crime and violence, been hurt by anti-business and high-tax policies and suffered a lack of economic growth. No question. But a casino is not going to solve those problems. <strong>Illinois<\/strong> has nearly 30 years of experience upon which to draw that conclusion.&#8221;\u2014Chicago Tribune <em>columnist <strong>Kristen McQueary<\/strong>, outlining a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/columns\/kristen-mcqueary\/ct-column-chicago-casino-downtown-mcqueary-20190729-trazr53ohrdajb36w7xrwlrrt4-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">downtown-or-nowhere scenario<\/a> for a Windy City casino, both to attracted moneyed oldsters and tourists<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The sentiment to put the casino in a struggling neighborhood, away from downtown, is well-intended. Too many South and West side communities have emptied due to crime and violence, been hurt by anti-business and high-tax policies and suffered a lack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1085\/\">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":[58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24618"}],"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=24618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24619,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24618\/revisions\/24619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}