21st Amendment Enforcement Act is alive and well
In what may be a first in recent memory, the Ohio AG Dave Yost is utilizing the Twenty-first Amendment Enforcement Act to file a preliminary injunction in federal court to stop certain retailers from shipping wine and spirits into the state.
The specific retailers named in […]
Big City Fights May Emerge in the Wine Shipping Game
After years of budget mismanagement that is only getting worse, Chicago decided to expand its tax base by imposing its liquor tax on Direct To Consumer (DTC) winery shipments into the state. The new tax will treat a direct wine shipper like any retailer […]
Cocktails-For-Hope was nominated for a Time In Award by Time Out Chicago. The award recognizes Chicago organizations that by their hard work and creativity helped make a difference in the hospitality community during quarantine time.
Cocktails-For-Hope is a grassroots effort started in Mid-March to bring cocktails-to-go to help the struggling hospitality community in Chicago […]
I had the privilege of discussing cocktails-to-go on the Karen Conti show. It was a wide ranging discussion covering the specifics of the Illinois and City of Chicago cocktails-to-go law and also we delved it other topics such as the future of the liquor industry.
Cocktails-For-Hope did something that not even Al Capone and his muscleman could do, they made cocktails-to-go legal in Chicago.
I was honored to discuss this historic occasion with Fox Chicago, NBC 5 Chicago, and Time Out Chicago.
BE sure to check out our webinar tomorrow
Cocktails-For-Hope is hosting a free webinar tomorrow at 1:00 pm central time on the new Illinois cocktails-to-go law. The panel includes Julia Momose of Kumiko and Cocktails-For-Hope, Ian Beacraft Co-Founder Cocktails-For-Hope, Lindsey Lapointe, Illinois State Representative, who co-sponsored and drafted the bill, and myself, Irish Liquor Lawyer, Sean O’Leary.
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KUMIKO IS THE ONLY PLACE I WOULD ORDER MY FIRST COCKTAIL FROM
With Chicago passing cocktails-to-go and making it legal for the first time since the 1930s, NBC and Fox Chicago are doing a segment on Cocktails-For-Hope celebrating a hard earned victory. NBC plans on doing […]
City Council of Chicago passes cocktails-to-go
I ask for one more favor for cocktails-to-go
When I started working with Cocktails-For-Hope three months ago, I could not imagine the tremendous and positive impact we would have on the Illinois hospitality industry.
We changed the law and made in possible for many bars and restaurants to access the income stream necessary to […]
Chicago’s City Council Committee on License and Consumer Protection unanimously passed out of committee a Cocktails to Go Ordinance.
The ordinance is poised to be voted on June 17th, and I don’t see any problem with it passing. An over 2/3rds vote means the […]