Illinois makes radical changes with HB2620: PART I
The Illinois legislature recently passed HB 2620 which makes some radical changes to the liquor system. These changes include changing Brew Pubs into Class 3 brewers and providing them full retail privileges and self-distribution, allowing for cooperative purchasing agreements, and writing into […]
Governor Prritzker signs a bill which would extend cocktails to go in Illinois through 12-31-2023
Cocktails-to-go passes in Illinois
Legislation extending cocktails-to-go until December 31, 2023 passed both houses and awaits the governor’s signature. The governor must sign by June 2nd as the law will sunset then.
SB 104 which would extend cocktails-to-go passes the Illinois house, it goes to the Senate for concurrence and then needs to be signed by the Governor by June 2, 2021.
Great to know from yesterday’s tv segment that the cocktails-to-go allowance kept several businesses from closing.
With a terrible year where bars and restaurants are coming out of economic hibernation, and will face a difficult economic recovery, it is more imperative that a cocktails-to-go extension bill get signed into law by June 2, 2021.
Without this […]
I am scheduled to be at Channel 5 news at 4:30 and 6:00 discussing cocktails-to-go and how we need to extend the law to allow cocktails-to-go in Illinois.
Tune in and more importantly contact your legislators and tell them to support cocktails-to-go. If the extension is not signed into law by June 2nd. Bars and restaurants […]
I was once a radical and then the world changed
During March 2020, I got a call from Julia Momose, one of the preeminent mixologists in America and the owner of Kumiko, a place famous for world renowned cocktails. Like many restaurants she was hit out of the blue by COVID. She wanted to […]
I will be speaking at 3:35pm on WGN AM 720 about cocktails-to-go today, we need to get SB104 passed into law to extend cocktails-to-go.
ILLINOIS RESTAURANT ACT-HB 2557
This bill creates the Illinois Restaurant Revitalization Fund, a fund in the amount of $20,000,000. This fund will award restaurant revitalization grants to struggling businesses. These include businesses that have not received PPP funding from the federal government and are not publicly traded companies. The money will be used to rehire and […]
Illinois’ cocktails-to-go law is set to expire June 2, 2021. Fortunately, SB104 would extend cocktails-to-go until December 31, 2023.
However, SB104 has not passed the legislature, and if it fails to become law, bars and restaurants lose their privilege to sell cocktails-to-go.
Many bars and restaurants survival depends […]