The Ameristar sportsbook opened its doors in September 2019, shortly after sports betting became legal in Indiana.Īmeristar is a member of the M圜hoice network run by Penn National Gaming. Ameristar also features a sportsbook that offers wagering on various sporting markets. The casino is inside the Win Star ship at the harbor and connects to a land hotel with nearly three hundred rooms.Īmeristar features hundreds of gaming machines and table games around nearly 56,000 square feet of gaming space. It was then sold to Resorts a few years later and then to Ameristar, which was acquired by Pinnacle Entertainment and eventually the Penn National Gaming group in 2018.Īmeristar is a waterfront hotel and casino property at Indiana Harbor on Lake Michigan. It was formed in 1997 in East Chicago, a town northwest of Gary near the Chicago Skyway toll road heading into Illinois and the city of Chicago.Īmeristar opened under the Showboat Mardi Gras Casino name and was bought by Harrah’s in 1998.

The Ameristar Casino East Chicago was one of the first casinos in the state.

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