(A) No license shall be issued for the sale at retail of an alcoholic liquor within 100 feet of any church, school, hospital, home for aged or indigent persons, or for veterans, their spouses or children, or any military or naval station. However, this 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, if that place of business so exempted has been established for such purposes prior to the taking effect of ILCS Ch. 235, Act 5 § 6-11, nor to the renewal of a license for the sale at retail of alcoholic liquor on premises within 100 feet of any church where that church has been established within 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 (as determined in accordance with any applicable statutory provisions or judicial decisions) and not to property boundaries.
(B) No license shall be issued to any person for the sale at retail of any alcoholic liquor at any store or other place of business where the majority of customers are minors of school age or where the principal business transacted consists of school books, school supplies, food, lunches, or drinks for such minors.
(C) 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.
(D) Nothing in this section shall prohibit a church or church affiliated school from locating within 100 feet of a property for which there is a pre-existing license to sell alcoholic liquor at retail. In these instances, the Plan Commission may, by ordinance adopted simultaneously with the granting of an initial special use zoning permit for the church or church affiliated school, provide that the 100-foot restriction in this section shall not apply to that church or church affiliated school and future retail liquor licenses.
(Ord. 2021-O-086, passed 12-7-21) Penalty, see § 112.99