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Bill extending cocktails to-go for 5-years in Illinois heads to Governor’s desk

by WICS/WCCU Staff

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CORRECTS SPELLING OF NAME TO JULIA MOMOSE, INSTEAD OF JULIE MOMOSA - Julia Momose poses for a portrait at the serving window with a "cocktail to go" at the Kumiko bar in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. Momose, a longtime bartender and co-owner of Kumiko, shut the bar on March 16 due to the pandemic, spending the next three months collecting petition signatures and lobbying the city to allow cocktails to go. That measure passed on June 17, and she sold the first to-go cocktail in Chicago that day. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast){p}{/p}
CORRECTS SPELLING OF NAME TO JULIA MOMOSE, INSTEAD OF JULIE MOMOSA - Julia Momose poses for a portrait at the serving window with a "cocktail to go" at the Kumiko bar in Chicago's West Loop neighborhood Friday, Aug. 14, 2020. Momose, a longtime bartender and co-owner of Kumiko, shut the bar on March 16 due to the pandemic, spending the next three months collecting petition signatures and lobbying the city to allow cocktails to go. That measure passed on June 17, and she sold the first to-go cocktail in Chicago that day. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast)

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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WICS) — Illinois lawmakers passed a bill to continue allowing bars and restaurants to serve cocktails to go.

Bill SB89 includes language extending cocktails to-go and delivery until August 1, 2028. The measure now goes to Governor J.B. Pritzker for his signature.

Illinois’s current cocktails to-go law is set to expire on June 1, 2024.

“A five-year extension of cocktails to-go gives local businesses and their customers the ability to continue to enjoy what has become an integral part of take-out dining,” said Andy Deloney, senior vice president & head of state public policy at DISCUS. “Cocktails to-go provide much-needed revenue to hospitality businesses facing supply chain issues, staffing shortages and inflation. They also give adult consumers the added convenience they have come to expect when ordering from their favorite restaurants. We urge Governor Pritzker to sign this bill and continue cocktails to-go in support of Illinois businesses and consumers.”
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Since the beginning of the pandemic, 20 states and the District of Columbia have enacted laws to permanently allow cocktails to-go, and 14 others have enacted laws that allow cocktails to-go on a temporary basis.


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