BND.com – Participants at a hearing Monday in the south Chicago suburbs on whether to expand gambling in Illinois raised similar issues to the ones raised during a previous hearing in East St. Louis. Namely: * Would an expansion harm existing casinos? * Will horse-racing tracks be able to survive without it? But at the hearing in Tinley Park, there were a couple of other questions that overshadowed those: Which south-Chicago suburb should get a license for a brand new casino? And how would the revenue from that casino be shared? State Rep. Robert Rita, D-Blue Island, who is shepherding…

Efforts behind Illinois gambling expansion are losing ground at the Capitol as the plan’s new sponsor clashes with Gov. Pat Quinn, and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle angles for a piece of the action. Rep. Robert Rita, who started shepherding the casino bill in the House last week, angrily disputed comments by the governor’s hand-picked chief gambling regulator, Aaron Jaffe, who suggested Chicago be taken out of the legislation. Rita suggested a separate vote on a Chicago casino would kill gambling expansion. “Is this (Jaffe’s) comments? Is this the governor? Where did these comments come from,” said Rita, D-Blue…