Posted on 05/27/2021 2:49:56 PM PDT by dynachrome
Mayor Lightfoot introduced an amendment Wednesday that would permanently ban Chicago stores from selling beer, wine and other alcoholic drinks after 10 p.m.
In April 2020, Lightfoot instituted the controversial 9 p.m. liquor curfew in Chicago to prevent residents from gathering outside during the coronavirus pandemic. Stores had been allowed to stay open until 2 a.m. most days and 3 a.m. Saturdays before the pandemic. The city revived the early curfew in October to combat a second wave of COVID-19 cases.
Now, as Chicago enters the final phase of the COVID-19 reopening plan, Lightfoot wants to make the 10 p.m. curfew permanent. She said it would curb crimes and disturbances outside stores, as well as boost the pandemic-decimated hospitality industry by potentially driving more people into bars and restaurants if they want a drink after 10 p.m.
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Grocery and liquor stores would be barred from selling beer, wine and liquor after 10 p.m. if Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot gets her way. She said the move would curb crime by stopping gatherings outside liquor stores and help recovering bars and restaurants.
Wait, I thought our problems had already been solved by Bill Clinton and midnight basketball...
The hood rats now have a better window to rob places 10:00am - 6:00am
Lol. See my tag line. Everything these lefties do is stupid and ineffectual if not downright dstructive.
If Beetleguise really wants to stem the tide of crime in Chicago, she should resign and take all the other Chicago democRATs down with her.
yes closed stores don’t get robbed at noght or broken into after they’re closed.
Chicago needs to get hard on crime, which will never happen as long as their corrupt officials and judicial system love the bribes.
I was going to say, longer periods of time, much earlier in the night, where the liquor stores will be closed and likely unoccupied.
The alkie is gonna git they booze no matter what. This’ll just move “happy hour” up by a few hours. Lightfoot is a clueless Cupid STunt!
they will just make purple drank
Fantastic. Al Capone wants to be resurrected and help bootleg the demand that will result.
Right.
What it will do is force people to buy 3 12 packs at 9:59PM instead of 1.
Even easier, they will probably still be open to sell cigarettes and candy bars and lottery tickets, so people will just shoplift the booze instead of buying it.
much easy to burgle and loot when the owner’s and employees aren’t there
Ah… so we’re implementing blue laws again?
Speakeasies like in the old prohibition days.
They’ll just break into the liquor stores to get what they want.
If they can’t sell it, then it must be free.
This has been working so well for illegal drugs, so why not?
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