{"id":2474457,"date":"2026-06-25T00:06:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2474457"},"modified":"2026-06-25T00:06:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T00:06:47","slug":"an-entirely-new-experience-hollywood-casino-aurora-opens-360-million-entertainment-complex-cdc-gaming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/an-entirely-new-experience-hollywood-casino-aurora-opens-360-million-entertainment-complex-cdc-gaming\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018An entirely new experience\u2019: Hollywood Casino Aurora opens $360 million entertainment complex \u2013 CDC Gaming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-139809 articleHeight\">\n\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"back-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/news\/\">\u2190 Back to Newsroom<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<header class=\"article-header\">\n<p>\nWednesday, June 24, 2026 7:45 PM<\/p>\n<div class=\"ahFull offsiteImage\">\n<div class=\"ahImage\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"align-right attribution\">\n<p><span title=\"Image aggregated from Daily Herald.\">Image aggregated from Daily Herald.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"grid-x authorShare\">\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-8 grid-x\">\n<ul class=\"authors\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"authorIm\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Generic-Author.jpg\"\/><\/div>\n<p><span id=\"author\">Susan Sarkauskas, Daily Herald<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div class=\"small-12 medium-4 grid-x align-middle share\">\n<div class=\"ns-buttons ns-inline ns-no-print\">\n<p>Email, LinkedIn, and more<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"CDCart\">\n<p>The Hollywood Casino Aurora threw open the doors Wednesday to a new, bigger home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis isn\u2019t just a new building. It is an entirely new experience for our guests,\u201d said Greg Moore, the casino\u2019s general manager, during an opening ceremony attended by local elected officials, casino executives, employees and loyal casino patrons.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd included Joe Stupec of Aurora, who has been gambling at the old casino in downtown Aurora for more than 30 years. He was accompanied by Aurora Mayor John Laesch.<\/p>\n<div class=\"cdcgaboba-content-placement-after-3rd-paragraph cdcgaboba-entity-placement\" style=\"text-align: center;margin-bottom: 1em;\" id=\"cdcgaboba-1719875687\">\n<div id=\"cdcgaboba-791438977\" data-cdcgaboba-trackid=\"139307\" data-cdcgaboba-trackbid=\"1\" data-cdcgaboba-redirect=\"1\" class=\"cdcgaboba-target cdcgaboba-target\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-bid=\"1\" data-no-instant=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/out\/139307\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"notrack\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Cdc search\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cdc-search-20260617.jpg\" alt=\"Cdc search\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cdc-search-20260617.jpg 720w, https:\/\/cdcgaming.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/cdc-search-20260617-375x63.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" class=\"no-lazyload\" width=\"720\" height=\"120\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s more than I expected,\u201d Stupec said of the new casino at 2500 N. Farnsworth Ave. After the speeches, he headed to one of the tables.<\/p>\n<p><input class=\"fooboxshare_post_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"139809\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p> <!-- end article section --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-footer\">\n<div class=\"continueText\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/20260624\/news\/an-entirely-new-experience-hollywood-casino-aurora-opens-360-million-entertainment-complex\/\" target=\"_blank\">Article continues on Daily Herald\u00a0<span>\u2b95<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyherald.com\/20260624\/news\/an-entirely-new-experience-hollywood-casino-aurora-opens-360-million-entertainment-complex\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"osButton button\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><center\/>\t\t\t<\/footer>\n<p> <!-- end article footer -->\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source cdcgaming.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2190 Back to Newsroom Wednesday, June 24, 2026 7:45 PM Image aggregated from Daily Herald. Susan Sarkauskas, Daily Herald Email, LinkedIn, and more The Hollywood Casino Aurora threw open the doors Wednesday to a new, bigger home. \u201cThis isn\u2019t just a new building. It is an entirely new experience for our guests,\u201d said Greg Moore, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2474458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[308694,402841,176147],"class_list":["post-2474457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-chicago","tag-expansion","tag-penn-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/\u2018An-entirely-new-experience-Hollywood-Casino-Aurora-opens-360-million.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2474457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474459,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2474457\/revisions\/2474459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2474458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2474457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2474457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2474457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}