Illinois sports bettors who wish to wager online will once again have to register their account with one of the state’s land-based casinos after a recent decision by the governor.

On Friday, Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s office reissued a flurry of executive orders originally issued as part of the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. But the order Pritzker issued last month that lifted the in-person registration requirement for online sports bettors wasn’t among the renewals.

Pritzker’s move means that, as of midnight Sunday (26), Illinois bettors who want to open an online betting account will have to visit the betting company’s land-based casino or racetrack partner. At present, only one of these venues – Rivers Casino Des Plaines – has an active online betting app although other operators are expected to launch soon.

Among those operators waiting in the wings is DraftKings, which surprised onlookers Thursday with its announcement of a deal with its Illinois land-based partner to rebrand the property DraftKings at Casino Queen. That deal appeared to give DraftKings a way to circumvent the 18-month ‘time out’ in the state’s betting legislation prohibiting online-only operators from using their own brands.