(A) No license shall be issued for the retail sale of alcoholic liquor within 100 feet of any church; school, (other than an institution of higher learning); hospital; home for the aged; home for the indigent; home for veterans, their spouses or children; or military or naval station; provided that prohibition shall not apply to hotels offering restaurant service, regularly organized clubs, restaurants, food shops or other places where the sale of alcoholic liquor is not the principal business carried on, if such place of business so exempted shall have been established for such purposes prior to the effective date of this chapter.
(B) The prohibition in division (A) of this section shall not apply to the renewal of a license for the retail sale of alcoholic liquor within 100 feet of any church or school where such church or school has been established within such distance since the issuance of the original license. In the case of a church, this distance shall be measured to the nearest part of any building used for worship services or educational programs and not to property boundaries.
(C) Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit the issuance of a special event license to a church or private school to sell at retail alcoholic liquor if any such sales are limited to periods when such groups are assembled on the premises solely for the promotion of some common object other than the sale or consumption of alcoholic liquors.
(D) No license shall be issued for the sale of alcoholic liquor, for consumption on the premises, if the premises sought to be licensed is within 250 feet, excluding streets, alleys and public ways, of an existing premises licensed for the sale of alcoholic liquor. Said distance shall be measured from property line to property line; provided, however, that this prohibition shall not apply to hotels offering restaurant service, restaurants or clubs. Nor shall this restriction apply to a renewal licensee where said place of business was established, licensed and operated continuously prior to the effective date of this chapter.
(E) No license shall be issued for the retail sale of alcoholic liquor within 100 feet of any undertaking establishment or mortuary.
(F) No license shall be issued for the retail sale of alcoholic liquor at any store or other place of business where the majority of customers are underage or school age, or where the principal business transacted consists of school books, school supplies, food, lunches or drinks for such underage children.
(1993 Code, § 70.19) (Ord. 93-09, passed 12-15-1993) Penalty, see § 70.999
Statutory reference:
Retail sales near churches, schools and the like, see 235 ILCS 5/6-11
Stores selling school supplies, lunches and the like, see 235 ILCS 5/6-12