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Companies Wanting to Operate Lottery Make Their Cases
Two companies vying to manage the Illinois Lottery made public presentations Wednesday.

By next week the state should know who will be managing the lottery. Two international companies, Camelot and Northstar Lottery Group, presented their visions of which direction the lottery should go. Both groups said a major objective is to increase lottery sales but added that school funding remains the lottery's primary goal.

A vetting process has taken place, but there is still more to come, says Jeff Cramer, a former assistant United States attorney who has been investigating several companies who participated in the process.

He says that once Gov. Pat Quinn picks one of the two companies competing for the job on Sep. 15, probity investigations will continue for up to six weeks before a contract is signed.

Lottery officials stress that the lottery is looking for a private manager; the lottery still will be controlled by the state.

There are no solid revenue numbers, but lottery officials say last year the lottery brought in $657 million in profits.

(Illinois Radio Network)
09 09 10 by Newsroom
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