MILLIES & ASSOCIATES, INC., an Indiana corporation, GLOBAL FIRE PROTECTION COMPANY, an Illinois corporation, JAMESON SHEET METAL, INC., an Illinois corporation, and AVERUS, INC., f/k/a FACILITEC CENTRAL, INC., a Wisconsin corporation, Defendants-Appellees.
O'NEIL CONSTRUCTION CO., an Illinois corporation, LINDEN GROUP, INC., an Illinois corporation, R.L. The Empress competes with a second Joliet casino, Harrahs, and the pair have been an economic boon for a city that had a crumbling downtown and dim prospects before getting them in the 1990s. JUSTICE BURKE delivered the judgment of the court, with opinion. General Counsel, Chief Legal Officer, Vice-President and Secretary for Empress Entertainment, Inc., Empress Casino Joliet Corporation and Empress Casino Hammond Corporation, 1994-1999. ALEXI GIANNOULIAS, Treasurer of the State of Illinois, et al., Appellants. Empress Casino Joliet CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS EMPRESS CASINO JOLIET CORPORATION et al., Appellees, v.