Increased gambling: This is the largest and negative perceived social costs from casinos.Crime: Crime rates can spike near casinos.Increased community investment: from tax revenues and aforementioned benefits from casinos.Increased employment: casinos usually employ local residents.Tourism: casinos can bring people from distances away, and usually these tourists.Entertainment: additional amenities and services from the casino, combined shopping center, theme parks.But does Harrah’s benefit Chester?Īdvantages: a casino can bring its nearby community some much-needed revenue, based on a few key factors:

was heavily criticized for allowing the business into the already economically down-trodden city of Chester. At the time the opening, Chester Mayor Wendall N. Chester’s Harrah’s Racino, a racetrack and casino, opened on January 22, 2007, and renamed Harrah’s Philadelphia in 2012.