Chicago Sun-Times: CASINO NEWS & NOTES

Enter to win cash and prizes in the Great $275,000 Hollywood Giveaway at Hollywood Casino in Aurora. Earn entries as you play while using your Screen Test or Marquee card. On Sundays and Thursdays from noon to 8 p.m., there will be $100 cash drawings every other hour. Through Feb. 20, you can enter to win airline tickets to your domestic dream destination. Beginning Feb. 21 and continuing through March 26, Hollywood is giving away a diamond a day; on March 23, it's nights on the town with limousine, dinner, show tickets and hotel room. Big cash drawings will award $27,000 on Feb. 21, March 27 and April 24, and a big $100,000 drawing will wrap things up on May 22. Call (630) 801-1234.

*Empress Casino in Joliet gets things rolling through March 26 with the $100,000 Triple Overdrive promotion. Slot players earn entries for every 100 points they earn while using their Empress cards, and table players can earn 100 extra entries for each natural blackjack. Bonus entries will be mailed to club members, and watch newspaper ads for free entries. At grand prize drawings Feb. 27 and March 26, Empress will give away Nissan Xterras, along with thousands of automotive prizes from Speedway, AutoZone and others. Call (888) 4- EMPRESS.

*Through April 15, Trump Casino in Gary offers players their chance to cash in on the NBC reality show The Apprentice. Earn entries while playing slots with your Trump club card. On your entry, vote for the candidate you think will be the next one fired by Donald Trump on the show. Each Thursday through April 14 at 9 p.m., 20 $100 winners will be drawn. If the winner is present and the entry correctly identifies the fired candidate, the prize is doubled. On April 15, weekly winners advance to a grand prize drawing with prizes up to $2,000.

*Harrah's East Chicago and Q-101 (WKQX-FM) present the Chicago Poker Championship at 1 p.m. Feb. 22. The winner will receive entry into the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, with the top 20 places receiving up to $50,000 in cash prizes. Entries are available for $500 at the cashier stand in the poker room, or players can try to win their entry through satellite tournaments Sunday, Tuesday, Feb. 15 or Feb. 17. Satellite entries are $65. Call (800) HARRAHS.