{"id":31792,"date":"2025-09-28T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T06:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/chicago-proposes-taxing-illinois-bettors-again-others-argue-state-should-lower-rate\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T06:00:01","slug":"chicago-proposes-taxing-illinois-bettors-again-others-argue-state-should-lower-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/28\/chicago-proposes-taxing-illinois-bettors-again-others-argue-state-should-lower-rate\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Proposes Taxing Illinois Bettors Again, Others Argue State Should Lower Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Financial Future Task Force, launched by Mayor Brandon Johnson, recommends that the city consider a 50-cent tax on all online sports wagers placed within its borders. The task force argues that it is not receiving revenue from online sports betting, including esports wagers. As a result&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/sportsbooks\/chicago-proposes-taxing-illinois-bettors-again-others-argue-state-should-lower-rate\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chicago Financial Future Task Force, launched by Mayor Brandon Johnson, recommends that the city consider a 50-cent tax on all online sports wagers placed within its borders. The task force argues that it is not receiving revenue from online sports betting, including esports wagers. As a result&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}