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The Chicago City Council’s License and Consumer Protection Committee voted to ban the thousands of unpermitted sweepstakes ...

The License Committee approved the ban by voice vote to eliminate competition for newly legalized video gambling terminals — ...

A City Council panel pushed through legislation Tuesday to ban sweepstakes gambling terminals that operate in a legal gray ...

Some Chicago bars and restaurants are urging City Council members to keep Sweepstakes machines legal and operating in the ...

The ordinance targets so-called “sweepstakes” machines, which avoid gambling regulation by offering non-cash payouts. These ...

When North Carolina lawmakers passed a 2010 law banning video sweepstakes machines, California-based SweepsCoach pulled out of the Tar Heel State. "We may have been the only company that did that," ...

A bank of six machines, virtually indistinguishable from slot machines, sits against the wall of a Citgo gas station at 443 Asbury Ave. Evanston has banned video gambling within city limits since 2009 ...

The N.C. Court of Appeals has slapped down some of the latest efforts by the video game sweepstakes industry — in which customers play video sweepstakes games to win money or other items of value — to ...

New sweepstakes casinos are appearing weekly in 2026,but are they worth trying? Find out which new launches stand out and ...