Aurora Mayor Richard Irvin scrawled A-plusses on a giant report card Tuesday for the progress being made building the new Hollywood Casino Aurora.

“This progress is amazing,” Irvin told laborers and their bosses, saying the project is on time and on budget and that the workers are doing high-quality work.

“This is magnificent. It really is,” said Craig Melby, co-founder of Viking Bros., one of the construction companies working on the project, told the crowd, which also included city and casino officials.