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Horseshoe to purchase

Empress

Jack Binion's Horseshoe Gaming agrees to

acquire a Chicago-area riverboat operator.

By John G. Edwards

Review-Journal

Horseshoe Gaming of Las Vegas said Wednesday

that it agreed to acquire a Chicago-area riverboat

operator, Empress Entertainment, for an estimated $600

million including debt assumption.