After spending nearly six years in six courts, the legal battle between the Forest County Potawatomi Community of Wisconsin and the city of Waukegan is likely over after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit put an end to the last pending case.
Starting in 2019, the Waukegan City Council certified three candidates to the Illinois Gaming Board for consideration to receive a casino license in the city, but excluded a fourth contender, the Potawatomi. The Potawatomi then filed its first of two lawsuits.
While the federal case was winding its way from Lake County Court to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and then to the 7th Circuit, the Potawatomi filed a second case in 2021 against the city and the gaming board to stop the licensing.
