RIVER WEST — Construction on Bally’s River West casino has been halted after a Chicago Sun-Times investigation revealed the construction project was using an unauthorized subcontractor previously linked to organized crime.
D&P Construction, a Melrose Park company that the FBI alleged had ties to the Chicago mob, was providing dumpsters at the casino site, the Sun-Times found. Following questions from the newspaper, the Illinois Gaming Board forced construction to stop, the Sun-Times reported Thursday.
D&P Construction was subcontracted by the Chicago Community Builders Collective, a minority-led general contracting group working on Bally’s $1.7 billion permanent casino on the site of the former
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