The company's largest gaming vessel, the Argosy VI, was scheduled to open in December 1997 in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Argosy opened its first floating casino in Alton, Illinois in late 1991, went public in 1993, and opened riverboat casinos in Riverside, Missouri Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Sioux City, Iowa in 1994. A market leader in a fast-growing industry, Argosy Gaming Company operates five riverboat gambling casinos on the Mississippi, Missouri, and Ohio Rivers that draw customers from Missouri, Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio.