From the Biloxi Sun Herald:

Isle files application for Missouri casino

ST. LOUIS - At least two companies hope to open riverboat casinos in south St. Louis County. Biloxi-based Isle of Capri Casinos Inc. filed an application with the Missouri Gaming Commission earlier this week. The company said it
intends to build a casino and hotel along the Mississippi River, south of the Jefferson Barracks Bridge.

The filing came just after Ameristar Casinos Inc. said it would revive
its plan for a casino in Lemay, Mo., a few miles north of the bridge.
The gaming commission has not processed an application for a St. Louis area casino since approving the joint venture of Harrah's Entertainment and Players International at Riverport in March 1997.

With the opening of those casinos came nearly 60 percent of the St.Louis gaming market. The commission never acted on the application of Showboat Inc., which had been selected by St. Louis County to build a casino in Lemay.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the commission's staff indicated that it would consider allowing a casino in south St. Louis County.

THE SUN HERALD