Bally's Quad Cities

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Bally's Quad Cities
Location Rock Island, Illinois, United States
Address 777 Bally Boulevard
Opening dateDecember 1, 2008
No. of rooms205[1]
Total gaming space42,000 square feet (3,900 m2)[2]
Notable restaurantsBally Bet Sportsbook & Bar[3]
Casino typeLand-based
OwnerGaming and Leisure Properties
Operating license holderBally's Corporation
Previous namesJumer's Casino & Hotel
Coordinates41°27′34″N 90°36′49″W / 41.459444°N 90.613611°W / 41.459444; -90.613611
Public transit accessBus interchange Quad Cities MetroLINK
Websiteballysquadcities.com

Bally's Quad Cities, formerly Jumer's Casino & Hotel, is a casino hotel in Rock Island, Illinois, part of the Quad Cities area. It is owned and operated by Bally's Corporation. The casino has about 42,000 square feet (3,900 m2) of gaming space, with almost 800 slot machines, 13 table games, and a live poker room. It is one of the largest land-based casinos in the state of Illinois.[2][4]

Bally's was voted the Quad Cities' #1 casino according to a poll conducted by the Quad City Times.

History[edit]

A view of Jumer's Hotel

In June 2002, the Illinois House of Representatives gives Jumer's Casino Rock Island permission to move away from downtown Rock Island to a site near the intersection of Interstate 280 and Illinois 92. In October 2007, Jumer's Casino Rock Island broke ground on a $151 million land-based casino, hotel and banquet center, and on December 1, 2008, Jumer's opened its new casino and hotel in southwest Rock Island. The 42,000-square-foot casino has about 800 slots and 13 table games as well as a live poker room and a high-limit slots area. The complex includes a 205-room hotel with 11 luxury suites, an event center, Bally Bet Sportsbook, a nightclub and four restaurants.

In 2011, the Jumer family sold the property to Delaware North for $180 million.[5]

In June 2021, Delaware North sold Jumer's to Bally's Corporation for $120 million.[6] The property was rebranded as Bally's Quad Cities in September 2021.[7]

Gaming and Leisure Properties purchased the real estate of Bally's Quad Cities in a leaseback transaction in April 2022.[8]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Jumer's Casino & Hotel - Hotel". Jumerscri.com. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
  2. ^ a b "Jumer's Casino & Hotel - Casino". Jumerscri.com. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
  3. ^ "Jumer's Casino and Hotel Voted "Best" by Industry Publications' Readers | Delaware North Companies". Media.delawarenorth.com. 2011-08-10. Retrieved 2011-11-18.
  4. ^ "Great Rivers Country". Archived from the original on May 9, 2012. Retrieved June 13, 2012.
  5. ^ Doug Schorpp (April 27, 2011). "Delaware North completes Jumer's acquisition". Quad-City Times. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  6. ^ Sarah Hayden (June 15, 2021). "Bally's buys Jumer's Casino in Rock Island". Quad-City Times. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  7. ^ Jonathan Turner (September 14, 2021). "Jumer's Casino & Hotel converts to Bally's Quad Cities". Our Quad Cities. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  8. ^ "Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. completes previously announced sale leaseback transaction with Bally's for Black Hawk and Quad Cities properties" (Press release). Gaming and Leisure Properties. April 4, 2022 – via GlobeNewswire.

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