Menominee a Step Closer to Kenosha Casino

Thread: Indian Gaming in the News (Off-Reservation Casinos)

A month after preliminary approval by the regional BIA office of an off-reservation casino near Beloit, Wisconsin, the same office gave preliminary approval to another off-reservation casino: the Menominee Nation's $800-million Dairyland proposal in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The Kenosha casino's location midway between Milwaukee and Chicago may tap into a lucrative market, and has drawn criticism from the Forest County Potawatomi Tribe, which has a casino in Milwaukee, one of the only operating off-reservation casinos in the country. Would more than one casino in the area saturate the market?

A Kenosha casino has been in the works for a number of years. We wrote about the politics and machinations of off-reservation gaming in Wisconsin in our 2001 article in the Gaming Law Review, "Are All Bets Off? Off-Reservation Indian Gaming in Wisconsin."