Modern casino amenities include six new brightly lit washrooms.ĭespite traffic and crowding concerns, lines were moving quickly by 8:15 a.m.
Historic touches remain, including an atrium looking up to the ornate rotunda lined with inset stained glass windows.
Now the three-story, block-long building on North Wabash Avenue is filled with nearly 800 slot machines and 56 gaming tables, an expansive blue-lit center bar, two restaurants and a coffee shop. More recently, it had been a vacant furniture store.īally’s Chicago had been renovating the 130,000-square-foot Medinah Temple since January. The quest led to an unlikely temporary destination - the landmarked, 111-year-old Moorish-style amphitheater, perhaps best known for hosting the annual Shrine Circus. Chicago has been looking to land a casino for more than three decades.
