I recently purchased a number of illegals and floor sweepings from a lady in Chicago. Her father was a hustler in the Chicago area and picked the chips up in his ramblings. Many of them going back to the 1930's Chez Paree, a major illegal operation in Chicago. As you will read the Gore & Kaye Inc chips are not from what I call from the "Era Of The Illegals." The raid came 10 years after the era ended. In Chicago so called "Charity" gambling followed the "Era Of The Illegals." It was rampant in the area and most of the profits went to the operators with small amounts to the charities.

Charity gambling is still going on in Chicago but is now legit companies with profits going to the charities. I have a good friend that operates charity gambling mostly in Holiday Inns last time I talked to him.

Gore and Kaye INC was a gambling supply company began in the 1940's. They sold and rented equipment to the Illegals, illegal charity operators, and finally to the legal charity operators.

Actual chips leased in the charity operations. They are injected molded clay/plastic chips but I have no clue who made them or when they were made. They do not go back to the Jack Todd diamond mold era.

The set is 5 chips. Two are $1 chips and one is a $5. Not sure what denom the other 2 are. I bought 5 odd chips, one each for the "Illegal Of The Day" research team.

Thanks to our "Friend Of The Hobby" for the following research.

Gore & Kaye was started in the 1940’s by Clarence Gore and Stanley Kaye. They rented and sold gambling and carnival equipment.

My note: Gore and Kaye would have been suppliers to the Chicago illegal operators until they were forced to close. Some of those operators moved into the illegal charity gambling. Looks like Gore & Kaye are still in business today.

Gore died in 1976 and Kaye in 1994 but the business appears to have continued in operation. In 2008 Gore & Kaye was described as a “wholesale distributor of charitable gaming supplies.”

Gore & Kaye’s place of business was raided in 1971:

My note: It sure looks like they had Illegal chips at one time. Hopefully they will turn up. Today's legal casino's sometimes rent chips. The Palms rented chips from Gamblers General Store for pre-opening Play Days in 2001.

In 1985 Chicago police began cracking down on “Las Vegas Nights” charity gambling and sent notice to companies like Gore & Kaye which rented supplies for the events to stop doing so or face arrest and confiscation of property. Kaye was quoted in an article about it:

Kaye’s obit from 1994:

My note: The 5 chip sets are going to be hitting the hobby sooner or later. They could have been used in the Chicago illegal charity years but maybe only in the legal charity years. IMO, they were not used or even made before the end of the "Era Of The Illegals." At least now you know "The Rest Of The Story."