Michigan City - The opening of a new 22-story, glass-walled hotel has Blue Chip casino hoping for bigger crowds of gamblers than it has seen since a nearby Michigan casino opened more than a year ago. The casino plans a grand opening for its new USD 130 million hotel on Thursday in its most-visible effort to compete with the Four Winds Casino Resort that opened about 10 miles away in August 2007 and the new USD 485 million gambling barge at Horseshoe Casino in Hammond that opened last summer.