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SPRINGFIELD -- The cash-strapped state of Illinois has paid more than $840,000 to lawmakers for extra travel and living expenses this year, as they have been repeatedly called back to Springfield for unfinished work, state expense records show.State gridlock cost nears $1 million (The Pantagraph)

For almost 200 years, the Seminole Tribe's struggle was simply to survive. Chased by 19th century soldiers into Florida's interior, the Indians battled inhospitable wetlands, poverty, and governmental neglect to gain independence and sovereignty. Now, thanks to casino gambling, the tribe has grown rich. Health care is free, college tuition is covered, and each of the tribe's more than 3,300 .A centuries-old struggle for tribal survival has become new challenge in a new century: How to survive success? (Sun-Sentinel)

INDIANAPOLIS | East Chicago Mayor George Pabey's administration scored a tremendous -- but perhaps temporary -- victory Monday in a long-simmering legal feud with three Pastrick-era groups that control millions in local casino cash.Pabey wins latest round in Casino Cash bout (The Times of Northwest Indiana)