Americans’ attention turned this past weekend to Las Vegas, which hosted this year’s Super Bowl. But the city has long played an outsized role in the country’s—and the world’s—imagination as a symbol of entertainment of all kinds, and gambling most of all. That peculiar economy has given it a cultural weight far greater than its status as the 24th-largest U.S. city by population.

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