(a) Within five days after the license fee was paid for a liquor license, the department of business affairs and consumer protection shall serve written notice by first class, registered or certified mail on all legal voters residing within 250 feet of the location for which the license is sought. The measurement of such area shall be made from the boundaries of the premises described in the application for which the license is sought, to a radius of 250 feet away. The notice shall state the name of the applicant, the street number and location of the premises for which the license is sought, the type of license sought by the applicant and the date on which the license fee was paid. The notice shall also state that any objection to the granting of the license sought shall be made to the local liquor control commissioner, in writing, signed by the objector and delivered to the local liquor control commissioner within 35 days after the date license fee was paid, as indicated on the notice, and shall set forth the specific grounds for the objection. The department of business affairs and consumer protection shall also serve such written notice in the manner and within such time limits as herein provided, upon the alderman of the ward in which the premises described in the notice is located.
(b) No outdoor patio liquor license shall be issued to any applicant who does not currently hold a tavern license, or a consumption on the premises – incidental activity license within the meaning of item (1) of the definition of a "consumption on premises – incidental activity license" in Section 4-60-010, for an indoor premises adjacent to the location for which an outdoor patio liquor license is sought.
(c) At no time may any live or recorded music be played or performed at any outdoor location licensed as an outdoor patio. This prohibition shall not apply to an outdoor patio operated in conjunction with a consumption on the premises – incidental activity license at the Field Museum of Natural History, the Shedd Aquarium, the Adler Planetarium or the Art Institute of Chicago.
(e) No initial outdoor patio liquor license shall be issued after the effective date of this amendatory ordinance of 2016 to a location that has capacity for greater than 500 people on the outdoor patio. Locations subject to the outdoor patio liquor license that are adjacent to Wrigley Plaza shall be further subject to the requirements and restrictions in Section 4-160-130(d).
(Added Coun. J. 12-9-92, p. 25465; Amend Coun. J. 5-19-93, p. 32382; Amend Coun. J. 7-2-97, p. 48017; Amend Coun. J. 7-2-97, p. 48044; Amend Coun. J. 2-10-99, p. 89271; Amend Coun. J. 6-27-01, p. 62917, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 6-4-03, p. 2443, § 6; Amend Coun. J. 9-29-04, p. 32144, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 7-27-05, p. 53211, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 11-5-08, p. 43677, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 11-19-08, p. 47220, Art. V, § 5; Amend Coun. J. 4-10-13, p. 51217, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 6-22-16, p. 26612, § 2; Amend Coun. J. 9-14-16, p. 31396, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 4-19-17, p. 48180, Art. III, § 4)