It has 486 hotel rooms, 184 located in the 8-story Blue Chip tower, and 302 in the 22-story Spa Blue tower (numbered to 23 as there is no 13th floor), and five restaurants. The Casino has 65,000 sq ft (6,000 m 2) of gaming space that includes 42 table games, and more than 1,900 slot machines.
This makes it the tallest building in Michigan City, as well as in LaPorte County and Northwest Indiana outside of South Bend. In 2009, a further development was completed, adding 302 hotel rooms. In 2005, the casino announced a $163 million renovation, and completed by the following year, replacing the three-level boat with a single-level casino that included a 65,000 sq ft of gaming space. In 2002, the third level was expanded, bringing the gaming space to 42,500 sq ft (3,950 m 2). It is owned by Boyd Gaming.īlue Chip was launched as a three-deck gaming boat on August 22, 1997, at that time only riverboat casinos were permitted in the state of Indiana, three years later, a hotel complex was added.
