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2. Harrah's Metropolis - Wikipedia

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   Harrah's Metropolis is a riverboat casino located on the Ohio River in Metropolis, Illinois.It opened in 1993 as Players Island, a joint venture between Players International and show business impresario Merv Griffin as one of the state's first casinos.

3. Players International - Wikipedia

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   Casino legalization was spreading rapidly, especially in the Midwest, and the Fishmans applied for and received a license for a riverboat casino in Metropolis, Illinois. Backed by game show impresario and former talk show host Merv Griffin, the company opened the casino in 1993. With little competition close by, it was an immediate success.

4. USS Benefit - Wikipedia

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   Benefit, a sidewheel steamer built at Metropolis, Illinois, in 1863, was temporarily acquired by the Union Navy sometime either late in that year or early in 1864 from Mr. Edward Buse for use of the Mississippi Squadron as a tug and general transport.

5. Boat show in Illinois voted one of the best in the country in ...

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   The Discover Boating Chicago Boat Show was voted one of the top such events in the nation, according to a USA TODAY / 10best readers' choice poll.

6. Metropolis, Illinois - Wikipedia

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   Metropolis is a city and the county seat in Massac County, Illinois, United States. It is located by the Ohio River . As of the 2020 census , it had a population of 5,969, [ 2 ] down from 6,537 in 2010 . [ 3 ]

7. List of crossings of the Ohio River - Wikipedia

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   Pulaski County, Illinois and Ballard County, Kentucky: 2018 Lock and Dam Number 53: Chestnut Hills Nature Preserve and Monkey's Eyebrow: 1929 demolished 2020: Metropolis Bridge: Canadian National Railway (Illinois Central Railroad) Metropolis and West Paducah: 1917

8. In Superman’s 'hometown,' a pastor vows to fight Satan’s ...

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   A battle over library books is dividing Metropolis, Illinois, which shares a name with Superman’s home. A pastor is framing the fight as a clash between good and evil.

9. Ohio River - Wikipedia

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   Similarly, in the 1990s, Kentucky challenged Illinois's right to collect taxes on a riverboat casino docked in Metropolis, citing its own control of the entire river. A private casino riverboat that docked in Evansville, Indiana, on the Ohio River opened about the same time. Although such boats cruised on the Ohio River in an oval pattern up ...