Par-A-Dice Hotel & Casino: Par-A-Dice Riverboat Casino cuts 40 jobs, blames video gaming for drop in revenues

EAST PEORIA - The Par-A-Dice Riverboat Casino announced "across- the- board" layoffs of 40 employeesTuesday, blaming the expansion of video gaming in the area."The layoffs are regrettable, but they're 100 percent due to the impact of video gaming," said David Strow, a spokesman for Las Vegas-based Boyd Gaming, the company that owns the Par-A-Dice."In the last three years since the advent of [...]