No license shall be issued for the sale at retail of any alcoholic liquor within 100 feet of any church, school other than an institution of higher learning, hospital, home for aged or indigent persons or for veterans, their spouses or children, or any military reservation or naval station; provided, that this prohibition shall not apply to hotels or motels offering restaurant services, regularly organized clubs, or to restaurants, food shops, or other places where sale of alcoholic liquors is not the principal business carried on, if the place of business so exempted shall have been established for those purposes prior to the taking effect of 235 ILCS 5/6-11; and provided that the prohibition shall not apply to renewal of a license for the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor on premises within 100 feet of any church or school where the church or school has been established within the 100 feet since the issuance of the original license. 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.
(Ord. passed 6-14-2005; Ord. passed 8-13-2013)