Bring Your ID To Illinois Casinos

Illinois will become the first state to require casinos to check patrons' identification cards in an effort to keep compulsive gamblers from feeding their addictions. Starting Aug. 15, employees at the nine casinos throughout Illinois will begin checking driver's licenses or state IDs of all people who want to board who look 30 years old or younger.

The ID check is supposed to stop some problem gamblers who have signed up for the States self imposed ban. Although there have only been 330 players under the age of 30 who have signed up for the ban, the regulators say they are using this as a test group. Of course the side benefit of carding any one under 30 is that it will stop people under the age of 21 from entering the casino and gambling illegally.