As Taverns Teeter On The Brink Due To COVID-19,
City Requires Many To Fork Over Money For New
Liquor License
CBS2-TV (Chicago),
by
Staff
Original Article
Posted By: AltaD,
5/29/2020 11:19:00 PM
While the city prepares to reopen next week, some businesses that are not on the list are crying foul. CBS2 Investigator Dorothy Tucker talks to tavern and bar owners, who face thousands of dollars in city fees, even though their doors remain closed.(Snip) Donson figures she’s lost close to $40,000 during the shutdown and she’s not alone.
To add to their financial woes, the 100 tavern owners have to pay $4,400 by July 15 to renew their liquor licenses–whether they’re open for business or not.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 5/29/2020 11:50:01 PM (No. 425914)
I'll be very surprised if the city give them a break on this. Chicago counts on this tax revenue you know....THEY can't simply go without. Lightfoot had threatened to keep the whole place shut down, but I guess she is "allowing" some restaurants to open with outdoor seating, two days after the statewide okay was given.
These neighborhood taverns are the social center's in many areas. Who knows when they will get Lori's "okay?"
6 people like this.
Today I'm even more disgusted with Mayor Lightfoot than I usually am.
She sent an ugly little Tweet to the president, in reference to the riots breaking out.
She said "I have two words for him; F. U."
How is that for professional decorum. She knows the DNC is too weak, too chicken to say anything about it.
9 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
watashiyo 5/29/2020 11:58:35 PM (No. 425921)
Business is business.
3 people like this.
Seems like the corona virus has turned into extortion. Little dictators popped up everywhere.
8 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Nimby 5/30/2020 12:15:14 AM (No. 425930)
Lightweight mayor is a basket case
4 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
Omen55 5/30/2020 12:20:44 AM (No. 425931)
The Blues destroy their cities & economy & expect the Reds to bail dem out.
FU Lightfoot!!
8 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
JL80863 5/30/2020 12:47:56 AM (No. 425938)
Votes for democrats have unending consequences. You asked for it, you got it.
3 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/30/2020 12:54:01 AM (No. 425942)
Chicago...run by comrade demonrats, whose sole job is to kill businesses, livelihoods, tank the economy, keep their jackboots on everyone's neck, just to get rid of President Trump. They're milking their orchestrated CV-19 to get their districts accustomed to communism. Wake up.
2 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
PChristopher 5/30/2020 1:01:53 AM (No. 425950)
Dems have never understood that when a cancer kills it's host, it gets buried too.
1 person likes this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/30/2020 2:12:37 AM (No. 425983)
Pay-to-Play is the Chicago way of life. She will be making nice with Donald Trump very soon when she realizes that a federal bailout is the only way the city will not go bankrupt. The Left identified Trump with the Minnesota bad cops almost as soon as the tragedy happened.
3 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
agrunt 5/30/2020 3:57:44 AM (No. 426014)
This sucks. First, we shut you down and now we cut your throat by taxing. The power to tax is the power to destroy.
3 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 5/30/2020 7:00:51 AM (No. 426089)
Every time Lightfoot goes to the "beauty parlor," her head looks like it just escaped a forest fire.
0 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
GO3 5/30/2020 7:30:31 AM (No. 426109)
Back in the day, if you came down with the flu or bad cold it was because you hadn't been drinking enough. They shouldn't have close them in the first place.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Daisymay 5/30/2020 7:37:12 AM (No. 426114)
I'm from Illinois, lived there for the first 50 years of my life. I have to say nothing has changed. Chicago has been under Democrat control as long as I can remember. So, I'm with #7. These people keep voting in Democrats, knowing they are crooked as they come! If those business owners had any smarts at all they would pick up and get the heck out of that Cesspool of a Town! Nothing will change! When Mayor Lightfoot leaves office there will be someone just like, or worse, than her running the city. NOTHING will change! Take your money and get out of there if you hope to have any kind of life! I lived in the Western Burbs, but I wouldn't even go back there as the Democrat Governor of Illinois is a Tyrant! No thanks! I will happily stay right where I'm at, in the Republican run state of Florida!
3 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
franq 5/30/2020 7:52:45 AM (No. 426127)
When the wicked rule, the people groan.
1 person likes this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
Historybuff 5/30/2020 9:19:25 AM (No. 426245)
It's hard to argue when your rules are based on superstition not science.
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