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Slot Machines for Bars in Aurora, IL

The Illinois Gaming Board's September 2026 report lists 35 establishments in Aurora with video gaming terminals, 205 terminals in all. If you run a bar or restaurant in Aurora, here is what is on the public record and how Prairie State Gaming would work with you.

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About the town

About Aurora

How Aurora came to be

Aurora began at a bend in the Fox River. In 1834 the brothers Joseph and Samuel McCarty came from New York and built a mill there, and the settlement on the east bank incorporated in 1845. A separate town grew on the west bank and incorporated in 1854. The two united in 1857, put their civic offices on an island in the river so neither side owned them, and alternated the mayor between east and west until 1913.

The railroad made the town. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy opened its railcar shops here in 1856, and they stayed the city's largest employer into the 1960s. Aurora also had a habit of firsts: Illinois's first free public school district in 1851, and electric streetlights in 1881, early enough that it took the official nickname City of Lights in 1908. When factories closed in the 1980s, unemployment reached 16 percent, and the city rebuilt with riverboat gaming, business parks and redevelopment along the water.

Aurora today

Aurora straddles Kane and DuPage counties about 35 miles west of the Loop. The old downtown still sits on the river around the island where the civic offices once kept the peace between the two sides. Hispanic families, who made up about a third of the city by 2000, shaped much of the near east and west sides, and the Lincoln Highway still runs through town as it did when the streetlights first went up.

The bar and restaurant scene

Downtown, the bars and restaurants near the river fill up before and after shows and on festival weekends. Away from the center, the trade is neighborhood taverns, sports bars and family restaurants along the main east and west corridors and in the strip centers toward the edge of town. The crowd is local and steady, the kind that comes in after a shift or for the game. The Gaming Board figures on this page show how many of those places already host video gaming terminals.

Sources

  1. Encyclopedia of Chicago — Aurora, IL (accessed November 6, 2026)
  2. Historical Marker Database — The City of Lights (Illinois Lincoln Highway Coalition) (accessed November 6, 2026)
Illinois Gaming Board record

Video gaming locations in Aurora

Establishments in Aurora on the Illinois Gaming Board's lists of video gaming licensees and applicants, with the status the Board shows.

Show all 39 Aurora locations
  • LA QUINTA DE LOS REYES
    36 E NEW YORK ST
    Application pending with the Illinois Gaming Board · March 26, 2026
  • La Villita Liquors II
    1415 E. New York Street
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · October 24, 2013
  • Lady T's Pizzeria & Pub
    1760 North Farnsworth Avenue
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · June 20, 2013
  • LATIN AMERICAN CLUB
    1331 DEARBORN St.
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · July 30, 2020
  • Lucky Panda
    2400 S Eola Road
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · January 26, 2017
  • Luxemburger Club
    416 High Street
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · December 19, 2013
  • McBride's North
    2340 S. Eola Road
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · January 28, 2016
  • Miss Lee's Social Club
    215 E. Galena Blvd
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · February 26, 2014
  • O'MALLEY'S PUB & EATERY
    701 HILL AVENUE
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · October 24, 2013
  • Paulie's Pub & Grille
    444 N. Eola
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · March 27, 2014
  • Phoenix Club
    515 Phoenix Ct.
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · July 24, 2014
  • Pomegranate Restaurant
    55 S. Commons Dr. Suite 114
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · January 15, 2014
  • Pub 56
    1555 Butterfield Road
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · August 24, 2017
  • Rito's Mexican Restaurant
    3450 Montgomery Road. Unit 27-28
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · July 28, 2022
  • ROSATI'S PIZZA
    2990 Ogden Ave.
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · April 24, 2025
  • Saddle Up @ Q Eatery and Saloon
    4440 Ogden Ave
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · December 8, 2021
  • SALERNO'S PIZZERIA & R BAR
    85 EXECUTIVE DR
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · June 28, 2017
  • SPARTAN ALE HOUSE
    1032 PRAIRIE STREET
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · December 14, 2016
  • TAQUERIA LA CHIQUITA
    651 E ASHLAND AVE
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · March 27, 2014
  • THE AURORA TAP HOUSE
    134 W Downer PL
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · April 18, 2019
  • THE END ZONE BAR AND GRILL
    1650 N. FARNSWORTH AVENUE
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · June 26, 2014
  • The Town Bar & Grill
    2681 East New York Street, Unit 117
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · September 19, 2013
  • THIRD WARD SOCIAL CLUB
    612 5th Ave.
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · December 19, 2013
  • Tia Wanna's Mexican Restaurant
    2115 W. GALENA ROAD
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · October 27, 2014
  • Tiger Athletic Assoc.
    1040 6th Ave.
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · April 30, 2014
  • Tracy's Bistro 8
    4424 E. New York St.
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · June 28, 2017
  • TW Cafe
    4430 Fox Valley Center Drive STE 108
    Licensed by the Illinois Gaming Board · November 7, 2019
Same split, different service

How Prairie State Gaming helps in Aurora

Illinois law fixes how terminal income is shared between the operator and the establishment, and no operator may give a location anything to sign. What you choose is the team.

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Questions about the tax, licensing or what to expect? Read the owner FAQ.

Questions

Video gaming in Aurora: the short answers

Does the revenue split change from one terminal operator to another?

No. Illinois law splits terminal income after tax evenly between the terminal operator and the establishment, whatever an agreement says, and no operator may give a location anything of value to sign (230 ILCS 40/25(c)). Operators differ in service, not in the split.

How long does a video gaming use agreement last?

Illinois Gaming Board rules cap a use agreement at eight years and do not allow it to renew automatically (11 Ill. Adm. Code 1800.320). If your location already has terminals, your agreement states its own end date.

How many slot machines (video gaming terminals) may one establishment have?

Illinois law allows a licensed establishment up to six video gaming terminals (230 ILCS 40/25(e)). The limit is set by the state, not by the terminal operator.

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