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Tax business cited for violating COVID-19 restrictions with illegal club; River North restaurant charged with being over capacity

June 14, 2024 at 6:48 p.m.

A South Side tax preparation business has been cited for violating COVID-19 regulations by allegedly operating an illegal club that featured a DJ, dancers and cover charge where guests did...

Beer cans move along the canning line at Off Color Brewing on the Northwest Side of Chicago on Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021. A national can shortage has breweries across Chicago scrambling to package their beers and they worry that the crunch will last through 2021. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Can shortage leaves Chicago breweries scrambling, adding yet another COVID-19 hurdle — and spelling the demise of at least 1 brand

February 2, 2021 at 1:21 p.m.

So long, Lil Buddy. Chicago's cutest beer — an easy-drinking lager in squat 8-ounce cans adorned with cartoonish, rainbow-colored letters — is going into hibernation, much to the chagrin of...

City shuts down gallery hosting a private party during Chicago’s first weekend reopened for indoor business

January 26, 2021 at 2:21 p.m.

City officials found "a high level of compliance" among Chicago bars and restaurants during the first weekend of indoor dining in nearly three months, but shut down a West Side...

People dine outdoors on North Clark Street in Chicago's River North neighborhood on July 14, 2022.

Chicago-area restaurants ready to reopen for indoor service again, some with tempered expectations, while others will stay closed

January 23, 2021 at 2:04 p.m.

Chicago bars and restaurants are ready to reopen for indoor service. Mostly. With Friday's announcement that such businesses may be able to seat and serve customers inside as soon as...

People gather at a President Donald Trump rally on Nov. 1, 2020, at Firewater Saloon in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood of Chicago.

South Side bar that hosted Trump rally shut down for violating COVID-19 restrictions; 12 others cited

January 21, 2021 at 4:30 p.m.

A Mount Greenwood bar and restaurant that hosted a rally for former President Donald Trump in November has been closed indefinitely by Chicago's department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection...

Clayton Molina, a worker at Great Central Brewing Co. in Chicago, stacks cans of beer during a canning run of Big Drop Pine Trail Pale Ale.

Nonalcoholic beer is having a moment, bouyed by better flavor and drinkers looking to moderate

January 22, 2021 at 5:12 p.m.

The aha moment happened over dinner. Like many beer drinkers, I had long sneered at the idea of nonalcoholic beer, always returning to a simple question: "Why?" If I wanted...

Chef Ryan McCaskey, pictured at his restaurant Acadia on Dec. 13, 2012.

Attorney says evidence points to former employee of celebrated chef Ryan McCaskey in online harassment case

January 15, 2021 at 6:39 p.m.

The attorney for a man who alleges that celebrated chef Ryan McCaskey stalked him online said at a court hearing Friday that evidence has led to a former manager at...

Sarah Stegner, owner of Prairie Grass Cafe, 601 Skokie Boulevard, carries free holiday meals out to furloughed and unemployed workers on Dec. 22, 2020, in Northbrook. Stegner said the meals will continue until funds run out.

Taco bar in Downers Grove, Claudia finds a home and Rooh adds street food: How Chicago restaurants are adapting to draw you back in

January 15, 2021 at 2:18 p.m.

Desperate times, creative measures. The pandemic has put the dining scene in and around Chicago in upheaval. Many restaurants are cautiously reopening, either outdoors, indoors or both. New places are...

Jeff Hoffman, owner of the Village Tap bar at Roscoe Street and Hoyne Avenue in Chicago, has launched a plan to offer $10 gift coupons to first 1,000 people who present documentation of having gotten a COVID-19 vaccine. A sample of the coupon is seen there on Jan. 14, 2021.

Chicago bar offers $10,000 in gift cards to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations

January 14, 2021 at 6:18 p.m.

In the vein of great bar and restaurant promotions — happy hour, two for one, kids eat free — comes the 21st century pandemic update: get vaccinated, get a free...

10 Chicago businesses cited for COVID-19 violations, including one restaurant also cited a week earlier

January 13, 2021 at 1:54 p.m.

Ten Chicago businesses and a residence were cited last weekend for violating COVID-19 regulations by allowing indoor dining or drinking, the city's Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection said....

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