The Prairie Band Potawatomi
Nation of Kansas believes a Class II facility in Illinois will bring benefits to the community.
The tribe predicts a $12 million impact on the economy and 930,000 visitors every year, The DeKalb Daily Chronicle reported.
The facility would employ 400 people and support an annual payroll of $17 million.
Local officials are weighing those figures as they determine whether to support the tribe's land-into-trust application for the 127-acre site.
They already signed an intergovernmental agreement in 2008 to address impacts of the casino.
The land falls within the Shab-eh-nay
Reservation, which was set aside for Chief Shab-eh-nay and
his band by treaty in 1829.
The tribe contends the reservation has never been extinguished by Congress.
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