By Bill Cameron, WLS-AM News

(CHICAGO) Governor Bruce Rauner is talking up an expansion of gambling to help pay for a big state construction program.

At the groundbreaking for the CREATE program to eliminate the bottleneck of train traffic through Chicago, Rauner was promising a big construction program if’s he’s reelected.

“Funded not with new taxes but with economic growth, balanced budgets funding infrastructure by making it a priority and expanding the entertainment and the gaming industry in the State of Illinois so we stop losing our revenue to Indiana, Wisconsin and Iowa,” said Rauner. “We will have billions of dollars into our infrastructure.”

If Rauner’s not re-elected, the Democrats are expected to pass a big construction program too, but we don’t know yet how they’d pay for it.

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