Poker in Rock Island

The first ever legal poker in Rock Island will begin at the end of 2008.

Casino Rock Island will relocate to a new facility, away from the river, and will have a poker room.

Chief Black Hawk would be proud of them. Actually their current site on the river in downtown RI is less than a block from where 1920's gangster John Looney ran his combined; Law Office, bordello, speakeasy and gambling operation. I could tell you a thing or two about illegal poker in Rock Island of the 1960's --- but that would be another story.