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In July 1999, Dubuque-based Peninsula Gaming purchased the casino operation, and spent $1 million updating the riverboat. [5] Peninsula Gaming continues to operate the casino. In 2006, Peninsula opened a second Diamond Jo Casino in Northwood, Iowa, 200 miles (320 km) from Dubuque. Peninsula was acquired in November 2012 by Boyd Gaming. [6]
Casino Queen Marquette is a 17,514 square feet (1,627.1 m 2) [1] riverboat casino located in Marquette, Iowa (across the Mississippi River from Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin) that is owned and operated by The Queen Casino & Entertainment. The riverboat, named Miss Marquette, is located by a 31-acre (13 ha) site that also contains an enclosed ...
List of casinos in the U.S. state of Iowa; Casino City County State District Type Comments Ameristar Casino Council Bluffs: Council Bluffs: Pottawattamie: Iowa: Riverboat: Argosy Casino Sioux City
In 2022, Peninsula Pacific Entertainment, which turned a single riverboat casino in Dubuque, Iowa, into a $1.4 billion hospitality business, acquired an ownership interest in all four.
The Port of Dubuque remained largely inactive until 1990. At that time, Iowa legalized riverboat gambling and the Casino Belle opened, afloat in the Ice Harbor. That boat was replaced in the mid-1990s by the Diamond Jo Casino, named after the Dubuque boatbuilder "Diamond" Joe Reynolds and his Diamond Jo Boat Line.
In 2009, Peninsula proposed building a $150-million racetrack casino in Des Moines, Iowa that would be a sister property to the Prairie Meadows racino. [12] Prairie Meadows ultimately rejected the plan. [13] In June 2009, Peninsula agreed to buy the Amelia Belle riverboat casino in Amelia, Louisiana from Columbia Sussex for $106.5 million. [14]