SPRINGFIELD – A little-noticed provision in the state’s new video gambling law could turn some Illinois truck stops into minicasinos.
The law, which legalized video poker at bars and veterans halls to help raise money for statewide construction projects, would allow the machines to be placed at trucking facilities under certain conditions.
The games could bring in [...]

HAMPTON — When he could no longer afford to pay his health insurance premiums, John Pelletier admitted he played “Russian roulette” that his health would hold up. It didn’t, and within a few months he became sick from cancer and later was stricken with emphysema.
He lost his good-paying job as a truck driver, his small [...]