(A) No license shall be issued for the sale of any alcoholic liquor at retail within 100 feet of any school, church, hospital, home for the aged or indigent persons, or for veterans, their spouses or children or any military or naval station; provided that, such prohibition shall not apply to hotels offering restaurant service, regularly organized clubs or to restaurants, food shops or other places where the sale of alcoholic liquors is not the principal business carried on at such place of business; nor to the renewal of a license for the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor on the premises within 100 feet of any church where such church has been established within such 100 feet since the issuance of the original license. The 100 feet is to be measured from property line to property line in all cases, except that of a church. In the case of a church, the distance of 100 feet shall be measured to the nearest part of any building used for worship services or educational programs and not to property boundaries.
(B) Nothing in this section shall prohibit the issuance of a license to a church or private school to sell at retail alcoholic liquor if any such sales are limited to periods when groups are assembled on the premises solely for the promotion of some common object other than the sale or consumption of alcoholic liquors.
(C) The Mayor, serving as liquor control commissioner, may grant with the consent of a majority vote of the City Council, an exemption to the prohibition in this section, upon issuance of the initial available class liquor license.
(Ord. 2810, passed 1-13-2009; Ord. 2811, passed 1-23-2009; Ord. 3240, passed 4-13-2021) Penalty, see § 118.99
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see 235 ILCS 5/6-11