Derek Helling

Chicago’s Next Voices guest columnist

Derek Helling works for PLAYUSA.COM, which reports on the gambling industry, and is one of the Sun-Times’ Chicago’s Next Voices columnists.

Bally’s Chicago casino is slated for the current site of the Chicago Tribune printing plant at 777 W. Chicago Ave.

Chicago’s Next Voices

City can’t ignore new casino’s impact on people struggling with gambling, Chicago’s Next Voices guest columnist writes

The permanent Bally’s casino promises an escape, but Chicagoans should look to the 1915 Eastland disaster as a cautionary tale of a promised respite from the dreary and mundane.

By Derek Helling