Bally's Quad Cities, formerly Jumer's Casino & Hotel, is a

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Rock Island, Illinois Rock Island is a city in Rock Island County, Illinois, United States, and its county seat. The population was 37,108 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census. Located at the confluence of the Rock River (Mississippi River tributary), Rock a ...

, part of the

Quad Cities The Quad Cities is a region of five cities (originally Tri-Cities, later four, see #History, History) in the U.S. states of Iowa and Illinois: Davenport, Iowa, Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, Bettendorf (the fifth to be included) in southeaster ...

area. It is owned and operated by

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. The casino has about of gaming space, with almost 800

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s, 13 table games, and a live poker room. It is one of the largest land-based casinos in the state of Illinois. Bally's was voted the Quad Cities' #1 casino according to a poll conducted by the ''Quad City Times''.

History

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

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. 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

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for $180 million. In June 2021, Delaware North sold Jumer's to

for $120 million. The property was rebranded as Bally's Quad Cities in September 2021.

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purchased the real estate of Bally's Quad Cities in a

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transaction in April 2022.

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* {{Quad Cities Casinos in Illinois Hotels in Illinois Casinos completed in 2008 Casino hotels in Illinois