ALGONQUIN – The Village Board on Tuesday directed staff to put together an ordinance that if passed would allow video gaming. It could take about a month to put together.

It’s a similar plan of action to August, when the Village Board wanted to wait six months to see how video gambling was handled in other municipalities.

Local businesses, such as some of the village’s taverns and restaurants, asked the village to allow video gaming for fear they would lose customers to neighboring communities where it is allowed: Harvard, Marengo, McHenry, Lake in the Hills, Woodstock, Huntley, Hebron, Johnsburg, Fox River Grove and Richmond.