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In its heyday, the town’s main drag featured saloons, dance halls, inns and gambling houses.

Funding for her group, which comes from gambling houses, “has increased by 50% from where it was before the lockdown,” she said.

Now, in anonymous, interchangeable gambling houses, he sits at blackjack and poker tables with strangers and sometimes other pros, counting, betting and often winning.

None of those detained were residents of the house on South Rita Way, which authorities described as an illegal gambling house.

Prairie Meadows Racetrack and Casino in Altoona has been the lone legal gambling house in metropolitan Des Moines since it opened as a horse track in 1989.