BeloitTuesday, November 3
Ho-Chunk Gaming Beloit's $705 million casino is open, with an event center and hotel due next year
The Daily Janesville team
Ho-Chunk Gaming Beloit opened to the public Fri., Oct. 23 with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a mini powwow. An event center and hotel are scheduled to be finished next year, and hundreds more jobs are expected when they are.
$705 millioncost of Ho-Chunk Gaming Beloit
The casino kicked off opening day with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and a mini powwow.
Source: WKOW
- Table games: blackjack, craps, roulette, baccarat and more
- Eats: Draft Picks Pub House and Food Truck Alley
- Jobs: hundreds hired as the casino opened
The opening also marked a homecoming. In a column on the opening ceremonies, Bill Barth writes that one of the larger Ho-Chunk villages stood where Turtle Creek meets the Rock River, in what's now Beloit. He says speakers paid tribute to ancestral leaders including White Crow, Whirling Thunder and Walking Turtle, and that Ho-Chunk President Jon Greendeer delivered a speech about the Nation's history.
The gaming floor has 1,300 slot machines and 33 table games
- 1,300
- slot machines on the gaming floor
- 33
- table games
Source: WKOW
Sources: WKOW, Royal Purple News