Illinois Sports Betting: Best Illinois Sportsbooks In 2026

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In the spring of 2019, the Illinois state legislature passed a costs that allowed Illinois sports wagering at riverboat gambling establishments, horse racetracks, and choose sports facilities. Online sports betting shown up in June 2020 with the launch of the BetRivers sportsbook.


This timeline offers a picture of Illinois' sports gambling history:


March 13, 2026: Illinois gamblers positioned 28.9 million bets in January, below 36 million during the very same month in 2025.


March 6, 2026: An Illinois lawmaker wishes to force forecast market platforms to be accredited and pay state taxes to the tune of 50% of their adjusted gross revenue.


Feb. 6, 2026: An Illinois lawmaker wishes to reverse a per-wager tax on online sports wagering operators less than eight months after the Prairie State instituted the law.


Jan. 16, 2026: Sports betting reached an all-time high in Illinois for the 2nd consecutive month with online and retail sportsbooks producing a handle of $1.66 billion, a brand-new record.


Jan. 12, 2026: The Sports Betting Alliance (SBA) associates a second consecutive 15% year-over-year drop in Illinois sports wagering to the Prairie State's 25 cent per-wager tax, with 6.4 million less bets placed.


Dec. 31, 2025: The Sports Betting Alliance (SBA) confirmed that it submitted a claim in Cook County and an ask for a momentary restraining order versus the city's new licensing requirements.


Dec. 23, 2025: Illinoisans set a brand-new state sports wagering record with $1.6 billion in wagers during October, exceeding the previous handle high of $1.53 billion set in November 2024.


Dec. 23, 2025: The NHL's Chicago Blackhawks are the first U.S.-based major expert sports franchise to partner with a forecast market platform, announcing a pact with Kalshi.


Dec. 22, 2025: Gilbert Villegas, a Chicago city council member, informs the Chicago Tribune that the boost of sports betting taxes previously this year in Illinois has already resulted in the decline of sports wagers.


Nov. 17, 2025: The Sports Betting Alliance (SBA) claims Illinois' per-wager tax triggered a 15% year-over-year drop in September online betting in the Prairie State with 5 million less wagers put.


Nov. 17, 2025: Sports wagering was up 9% year-over-year in Illinois during September, but revenue in the first full month of football dropped off significantly.


Oct. 21, 2025: Chicago wishes to include its own brand-new tax on Illinois sports betting, a relocation that state lawmakers are working to avoid.


Oct. 17, 2025: The sports betting market faces a risk of yet another Illinois tax walking with Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson presenting his 2026 budget plan proposition to the City board, consisting of a new "Online Sports Wagering Tax."


Oct. 16, 2025: Illinois sportsbooks created over $100 million in profits for the 8th time in the last 12 months, taking 82% more profits in August than in the very same month in 2024.


Sept. 24, 2025: The Sports Betting Alliance is sounding the alarm over a proposed per-bet tax in Chicago, which would remain in addition to the one imposed by Illinois legislators in July.


Sept. 24, 2025: Despite a low-volume month with mostly MLB to bring betting, the Illinois Gaming Board reported an $862.5 million handle in July, placing the marketplace second nationally behind only New york city.


Sept. 10, 2025: Following Illinois becoming the very first state to carry out a per-bet tax, a ranking of Illinois' sportsbooks by costs, minimums from the majority of to least tolerable by Covers' Ryan Butler.


Sept. 2, 2025: All 10 sports betting operators have officially reacted to the per-wager fee applied by Illinois lawmakers this summer, with bet365 the last operator to act.


Aug. 26, 2025: Caesars Sportsbook will be the newest sportsbook to begin charging a $0.25 cost on each online wager in Illinois, starting Sept. 1.


Aug. 20, 2025: PENN's Chicagoland retail properties and ESPN BET have actually become main partners of the Chicago Bears.


Aug. 19, 2025: Illinois' sports betting operators produced their biggest win rate ever, leading to 33% year-over-year revenue development in June.


Aug. 14, 2025: ESPN BET raises its minimum wager in Illinois to $1 (from $0.10).


Aug. 4, 2025: The Board reveals enhanced and uniform marketing guidelines for 3 facets of gambling: casinos, video gaming, and sports wagering.


July 31, 2025: Licensed online sportsbooks in Illinois are reacting to the new per-bet tax and what it may cost gamblers.


July 17, 2025: Illinois' eighth consecutive $1 billion monthly deal with propelled the state into an elite club, signing up with New York and New Jersey as the only 3 U.S. states to reach $50 billion in total bets given that the Supreme Court overturned PASPA in 2018.


July 15, 2025: BetMGM sets a $2.50 minimum bet in Illinois after the state's new tax modifications.


July 15, 2025: Illinois is getting closer to officially prohibiting using credit cards in connection with sports wagering.


July 10, 2025: Illinois Attorney General Of The United States Kwame Raoul forecasts that the state will ultimately legalize online casino video gaming, with consideration potentially being given up 2026.


July 2, 2025: The WNBA's Chicago Sky partnered with online security firm Moonshot to combat online hate, harassment, and abuse targeting players and coaches.


June 19, 2025: The WNBA's Chicago Sky announced a multi-year partnership with bet365 sportsbook, making them the 5th WNBA group with a sports betting partner.


June 18, 2025: Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker states Illinois' budget plan, that includes brand-new tax rate on every online sports wager, showcases state's "hard-earned financial duty" with the state enforcing a $0.25-per-wager rate for the first 20 million wagers, $0.50 after.


June 17, 2025: April produces an 18% year-over-year sports betting income boost in Illinois, with the Prairie State's online and retail sportsbooks taking in $108 million on an over $1 billion deal with.


June 17, 2025: Lawsuits versus prediction market operator Kalshi, and the trading platforms Robinhood, Susquehanna, and Webull, started to pop up across the U.S. this month, with lawsuits submitted in 5 states, consisting of Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio, Massachusetts and South Carolina.


June 16, 2025: An online survey carried out by Covers suggests the 50-cent charge that DraftKings and FanDuel are planning to charge in Illinois could curb betting by some clients.


June 12, 2025: DraftKings, much like competing FanDuel, plans to charge its clients a 50-cent charge in reaction to the per-bet tax Illinois legislators just recently authorized.


June 10, 2025: FanDuel-parent Flutter is alerting that Illinois' brand-new per-bet tax "will disproportionately impact lower wagering recreational clients while likewise punishing those operators who have actually invested the most to grow the online managed market in the state."


June 10, 2025: FanDuel moms and dad business Flutter Entertainment will set up a 50-cent surcharge on all wagers in Illinois, in action to Illinois' recent tax hike, which will charge sportsbooks 25-to-50 cents per accepted wager in addition to the 20-to-40% revenue tax.


June 4, 2025: A recently carried out DraftKings additional charge on sports bets faced such scrutiny that public pressure required the company to abandon its concepts.


June 3, 2025: Despite pushback from significant operators, Illinois is moving on with a substantial change to its sports wagering tax structure, with rates varying from 20% to 40% to replace the flat 15% tax on sports wagering income.


June 3, 2025: With the 157th edition of the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga Race Course set for Saturday, Caesars Entertainment revealed it has actually added pari-mutuel horse racing betting into its sportsbook in Illinois and Indiana.


June 2, 2025: Illinois has been hit by another tax for online sportsbooks - the brand-new tax, efficient July 1, will be 25 cents per wager for the very first 20 million bets taken in the state in any offered , and after that 50 cents per wager after that.


May 27, 2025: Illinois lawmakers are facing pressure as proposals to legalize online casinos have stalled before the May 31 adjournment.


May 20, 2025: BetMGM has actually seen a 157% manage boost on the Chicago Bears in the Super Bowl winner futures market considering that Chicago native Robert Prevost was revealed as the brand-new Pope.


May 15, 2025: Illinois bettors bet 34.7% more sports betting dollars in March 2025 than in the very same month of the previous year, but win rate listed below 7% stunted earnings growth.


April 28, 2025: An Illinois male won $350,000 in bets at a casino in Indiana and $450,000 at a gambling establishment in Iowa totaling $800k, however those gambling establishments, run by Caesars Entertainment, refuse to pay those winnings, declaring he breached house guidelines and anti-money laundering policies.


April 24, 2025: Illinois sports wagering regulators relocate to ban making use of credit cards.


April 21, 2025: An operator-friendly Super Bowl LIX outcome in Illinois caused a 53.1% year-over-year February revenue boost.


April 2, 2025: Illinois concerns cease-and-desists orders to prediction companies Kalshi, Robinhood, and Crypto.com, joining a list of growing states to do something about it versus these grey-area books.


March 17, 2025: Illinois lawmakers are thinking about the legalization of online betting, likewise known as iGaming, as the state faces a possible budget deficit and economic unpredictability.


March 17, 2025: Illinois bettors still can't put bets on the 2 in-state participants in the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament, thanks to a ban that restricts all wagers involving Prairie State groups.


March 16, 2025: bet365 goes reside in Illinois ahead of March Madness, becoming the tenth online sportsbook available in the Prairie State.


March 14, 2025: Illinois January sports betting manage is up 14.6% yearly, highlight an increase in online wagering to begin 2025.


Feb. 12, 2025: Illinois December sports betting income falls almost 18% year-over-year compared to December 2023. However, the state produced 75% more tax income for the whole of 2024 compared to the previous year.


Jan. 15, 2025: Illinois sets a new regular monthly record for sports wagering deal with and earnings in November, gathering $137.2 million in make money from $1.53 billion wagered.


Dec. 18, 2024: bet365 receives an Illinois sports betting license to run a retail and online sportsbook, helping it partner with Walker's Bluff Casino Resort.


Dec. 17, 2024: Illinois' earnings drops in October regardless of earning a record sports wagering deal with.


Nov. 18, 2024: Illinois set a brand-new month-to-month sports betting revenue high, as the Illinois Gaming Board reported a September manage of $1.31 billion, up 21.3% year-over-year and 50% month-over-month.


Oct. 25, 2024: The NFL requests a restriction on prop bets that are "prone to control" in Illinois, such as the first play of the video game, the first pass to be insufficient, and a gamer missing a field goal.


Oct. 22, 2024: Illinois sports betting action rises 30% year-over-year in August, resulting in almost $60 million in adjusted income.


Sept. 17, 2024: The Illinois Gaming Board presents new gambling marketing policies that will apply to regional casino and video gaming operators for the very first time.


Aug. 26, 2024: Acid rock Bet goes reside in Illinois, making it the ninth online operator in the state.


Aug. 12, 2024: Illinois' operators produce an 11% hold regardless of the state's shrinking sports betting manage in June.


Aug. 1, 2024: DraftKings is set to introduce a tax on winning bets in Illinois.


July 9, 2024: Illinois' billion-dollar handle streak grows to 9 months, as the state eclipsed $1.02 billion in wagers in May.


June 25, 2024: The Chicago Blackhawks partner with Circa Sports to sponsor a main home jersey spot during the next NHL season.


June 18, 2024: Illinois' April deal with pushes past New Jersey for the second-biggest sports wagering overall in the U.S. for the month.


June 18, 2024: Illinois lawmakers safeguard sports wagering tax walking in 2025 spending plan.


June 4, 2024: Illinois Governor indications the new progressive sports wagering tax rates into the state's 2025 spending plan and will officially come into effect on July 1, 2024.


May 28, 2024: Analysts say response to sports betting tax walkings is overblown, mentioning Illinois is a "state-specific" case.


May 27, 2024: Major sportsbooks would "review" their Illinois existence if the state's sports betting tax hike becomes law.


May 16, 2024: Illinois' March basketball action rises 23% year-over-year, helping sportsbooks create nearly $1.3 billion in monthly handle.


May 3, 2024: Illinois presents a costs to obstruct Dave & Buster's bets on arcade video games following the company's recent announcement to enable betting between customers on choose games.


April 5, 2024: Fanatics Sportsbook formally browses the web in Illinois.


Feb. 23, 2024: Following Gov. Pritzker's statement of a proposed tax hike on sports wagering last week, Covers' own Geoff Zochodne wonders if a sports betting tax hike in Illinois could deter the state's market?


Feb. 22, 2024: Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker proposes sports wagering tax walking to combat budget deficit, as raising taxes from 15% to 30% would offer an extra $100 million to the state.

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