Committee on License and Consumer Protection meeting, October 21, 2024
- When: Mon, Oct 21, 2024, 1:30 PM (Chicago time)
- Where: Room 201A, 2nd Floor, City Hall, 121 North LaSalle Street - Chicago, IL 60602
- Status: Scheduled & Published
- Committee: Committee on License and Consumer Protection
- Video: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/1021813746
- Transcript: full text (2,781 words, automatic captions)
Meeting notes
AI-written from the transcript. Speakers are inferred from cues in the recording, so treat names as estimates and check the video at the linked time.
The Committee on License and Consumer Protection heard two public commenters and then acted on ten agenda items, mostly ordinances adding or lifting liquor and packaged goods license moratoriums on specific street segments. The committee passed moratoriums on portions of 43rd Street in the 3rd Ward, Archer Avenue in the 12th Ward, 63rd Street in the 16th Ward and Belden Avenue in the 35th Ward, and passed ordinances lifting moratoriums on portions of Morgan Street in the 11th Ward, Ashland Avenue and another street in the 16th Ward, North Kedzie Avenue in the 33rd Ward and East Illinois Street in the 42nd Ward. An ordinance creating a small business protection rebate program for security hardware and software was re-referred to the Committee on Budget and Government Operations. All matters passed on voice votes.
Topics: liquor license moratoriums, packaged goods licenses, small business security rebate, business ownership transfers
Agenda items discussed
- 7:54 Public comment: discussed
- 14:30 Disallow additional liquor and packaged goods licenses on a portion of 43rd Street (3rd Ward) (O2024-0013127): passed
- 15:58 Allow additional packaged goods licenses on a portion of Morgan Street (11th Ward) (O2024-0012873): passed
- 17:28 Disallow additional packaged goods licenses on a portion of Archer Avenue (12th Ward) (O2024-0007334): passed
- 18:38 Disallow additional packaged goods licenses on a portion of 63rd Street (16th Ward) (O2024-0012609): passed
- 19:11 Allow additional packaged goods licenses on a portion of Ashland Avenue (16th Ward) (O2024-0012611): passed
- 19:36 Allow additional packaged goods licenses on a portion of a 16th Ward street (O2024-0012612): passed
- 21:50 Allow additional packaged goods licenses on a portion of North Kedzie Avenue (33rd Ward): passed
- 22:59 Disallow additional liquor and packaged goods licenses on a portion of Belden Avenue (35th Ward): passed
- 24:18 Allow additional packaged goods licenses on a portion of East Illinois Street (42nd Ward) (O2024-0013137): passed
- 25:33 Small business protection rebate program for security hardware and software costs, re-referred to the Committee on Budget and Government Operations (O2024-0010006): passed
Alderpersons who spoke
- Debra L. Silverstein (chair)
- Nicole T. Lee (alderperson): Asked the committee to lift the packaged goods moratorium on part of Morgan Street to allow a new listening bar and more businesses. (16:31)
- Julia M. Ramirez (alderperson): Asked the committee to restore a packaged goods moratorium on part of South Archer Avenue that her predecessor lifted in 2019 for one business. (17:53)
- Stephanie D. Coleman (alderperson): Asked for support to disallow packaged goods licenses on part of 63rd Street as her office reviews newly inherited ward territory block by block. (20:11); Said the community supports an existing operator investing in a long-neglected building at 55th and Ashland. (20:47)
Exchanges between members
- 16:25 The chair recognized Lee to present the Morgan Street ordinance.
- 17:49 The chair recognized Ramirez to present the Archer Avenue ordinance.
- 19:58 The chair recognized Coleman to present three 16th Ward ordinances.
- 20:08 Coleman thanked Chair Debra L. Silverstein and the committee for help with her ward's moratoriums.