One added benefit is that any food outlet will accept the $25 credit – even Starbucks (but not on purchases of prepackaged items, just handcrafted drinks and prepared food like pastries). Now you just charge it to your room and it’s comped at check-out. Previously each day of their stay they received a voucher good for the breakfast buffet or a $25 food credit at Cross Street Grill.

Harrah’s gives Seven Stars cardholders staying in the hotel a daily $25 folio credit. In addition, there is Flavors the Buffet and a Starbucks. Wednesdays are 'Wine Wednesdays' where all bottles of wine (except Champagne) are 50 percent off. You can pay with Reward Credits, cash or credit card. Caesars Rewards cardholders get 10 percent off all menu items, except alcohol. The menu has since changed and items I had are no longer offered, but I continue to hear good things about this restaurant.

They are hoping the tremendous growth in Will County will help draw business.Meanwhile, at The Reserve, I had one of the best meals ever in a casino's fine dining restaurant. With immense competition for gambling dollars from video gaming locations in bars and restaurants to online as well as brick and mortar sports books, it is a difficult landscape for casinos. The groundbreaking event comes less than a month after a similar groundbreaking for the same company in Aurora, where they also plan to move from the Riverboat downtown to a land-based location just off Interstate-88 'The location of this we think will help drive more business to the property,' said Mike Thoma with Hollywood Casino Joliet. The casino will be in a much higher profile location, near the interchange of I-55 and I-80 with about 230,000 cars passing by a day. The time has come for Hollywood Casino, which is owned by Penn Entertainment, to move off of the water after a change in the law allowing land-based casinos in Illinois. Joliet has had riverboat casinos for more than three decades, including Harrah's casino, which is owned by Caesars Entertainment. 'It's going to be so important for this region to develop a destination that functions for everybody and creates the opportunity to have some fun,' said Doug Pryor with Will Co. The site is planned to be a new $185 million casino complex, featuring slot machines and table games along with lots of hotel, restaurant and entertainment space, including a convention center.

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