Nothing about chips but there was a Post Dispatch news item:

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1947 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 19 INDICTED ON EAST SIDE TO BE ARRAIGNED FRIDAY
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

Vic Doyle, one of the gamblers indicted last week by the St. Clair county grand jury,
has enjoyed a long career in the gambling rackets in East St. Louis. He operates the "Ringside"
gambling casino