Short answers, pulled from the story.
Resorts International opened on the 26th of May, 1978, becoming the first legal casino in the eastern United States. New Jersey voters had approved casino gambling for Atlantic City in a 1976 referendum, which passed 56-44 after a 1974 statewide referendum failed 60-40.
Ruth Hoskins learned the game in Indianapolis and brought it to Atlantic City, where she made a new board using local street names. Friends learned it from her and eventually passed it to Charles Darrow, who modified the game and claimed it as his invention. Parker Brothers published it with Atlantic City street names intact.
Enoch L. "Nucky" Johnson was a racketeer and political boss who ran Atlantic City during Prohibition. His annual income reached as much as $500,000 from kickbacks on illegal liquor, gambling, and prostitution. In May 1929, he hosted a conference that created a National Crime Syndicate, attended by figures including Al Capone, Charles Luciano, Meyer Lansky, and Benjamin Siegel.
The Atlantic City Boardwalk opened on the 26th of June, 1870, originally as a temporary structure erected to keep sand out of hotel lobbies. It was the first boardwalk in the world. Before the 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane, it stretched about 7 miles from Atlantic City to Longport.
Casino revenue peaked at $5.2 billion in 2006 and fell to $2.9 billion by 2013. Four casinos closed in 2014. Gross gaming revenue from the city's nine operating casinos totaled $2.79 billion in 2022, a 9% increase from the previous year.
Charles Todd's handmade Monopoly board introduced the misspelling, which Charles Darrow copied and Parker Brothers then published. Parker Brothers formally acknowledged the error and apologized to Marven Gardens residents in 1995, though the spelling was never corrected on the game board.