Who runs Valeozen
The publisher of record is Horseshoe Hammond, LLC, 777 Casino Center Drive, Hammond, IN 46320, a company inside the Caesars Entertainment group. Letters about the guide land with the same small desk that drafts it: contact@valeozen.com.
Horseshoe Hammond, LLC, the publisher of this site, runs a casino venue in Hammond, Indiana that has no hotel rooms, so it cannot be part of a casino-hotel list and is not in it. None of the ten hotels is owned by the publisher. Two of them, Harrah's Joliet and Horseshoe St. Louis, are run by subsidiaries of Caesars Entertainment, the group the publisher also belongs to, and each of those two carries the label “Sister property (same parent group)”.
How the site makes money
Valeozen runs on affiliate commission, which arrives whenever a partner programme credits us with a stay reserved via one of our buttons. A handful of outbound buttons may carry a referral tag for that reason. The hotel charges you its ordinary rate regardless.
Because the publisher operates in this region, it has a commercial interest in people travelling here, and you should read the list with that in mind. Saying so on every relevant page seemed fairer than tucking it into one corner.
How hotels are chosen
Entry rule one: guests must be able to reserve a room on the resort grounds or in a building joined to it. Entry rule two: recent public reporting has to show the place trading normally. After that we read each hotel's own pages, regional tourism listings and local news, and weigh five things: sleep quality and room types, what fills a day besides the casino, the journey in, how openly fees and age limits are published, and whether every fact survives a second source.
A Rockford resort was set aside because its planned hotel tower is still on the drawing board. The order you see is an editor's call; no property can purchase its rung.
Experience and sources
Our writers plan their own weekends around the southern end of Lake Michigan, the Wisconsin river towns and the Mississippi crossing, so traffic on I-94 on a July Friday is lived knowledge rather than theory. Claims come from a hotel's official site, a public body, or press coverage we could match against another outlet. Conflicting figures were simply dropped.
What we will not publish
You will find no accounts of casino activity, no offers, nightly prices, symbols that grade one property above another, or guest quotes we cannot trace. Each hotel's casino gets a single matter-of-fact line in its facilities list and nothing more.
Corrections
Found a stale detail? Email contact@valeozen.com, quoting the sentence and its page. An editor checks it against a primary source, amends the entry and moves the revision date forward. Big shifts, say a closure or a rebrand, are handled within a few working days of confirmation.