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A city-commissioned study (costing $885K) by Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill (SOM) has concluded that the development-catalyzing and tax-producing potential of a Michael Reese Hospital site casino outpaces any other use on the table, including an Obama Presidential Library and a cluster of convention hotels. The numbers, which don't account for gambling revenue, have a casino bringing the city three times the payday of the library or hotels— a net of $208M after land purchase and infrastructure development. As much as this sounds rigged in Rahm's favor, a mayoral spokesman insists "we did not steer them [SOM] to examine those three things." [Trib, previously, previously]