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Illinois Regulators Say Prediction Markets Are Illegal Gambling, But Bettors — and the Trump Family

This story is a collaboration between Illinois Answers Project and Capitol News Illinois. On a recent Tuesday afternoon, at a small, round table in a spacious apartment in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood, 19-year-old Oliver Wilson sits engrossed in front of two laptop screens, neither of which have anything to do with his introductory-level molecular engineering final exam in a few hours. The University of Chicago freshman is on Polymarket, wat…
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illinoisanswers.org broke the news in on Friday, March 13, 2026.
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