City Council News: Sunday bar and liquor hours extended
By Jim Hagerty
Online Editor
Aldermen voted 9-3 to extend hours when people can purchase alcohol at the Monday, March 28 meeting of the Rockford City Council.
As soon as the ordinance is written, bars, restaurants and packaged liquor retailers will be permitted to serve alcohol from 9.m. on Sundays until 2 a.m. on Mondays. The new law will give establishments four more hours to do business.
Under the current ordinance, Sunday alcohol sales are permitted from 11 a.m. until midnight.
While Linda Mcneely (D-3) and Venita Hervey (D-5) were absent Monday, Frank Beach (R-10), Pat Curran (R-2) and Bill Timm (R-9) voted against the change.
The Rockford City Council meets in open session every Monday at 6 p.m. Meetings are in Council Chambers on the second floor of City Hall, downtown.
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2 Comments
What does this say about the community.?$$$$? Belly up to the bar-boys.
I can see the possible revenue that can be made in this plea to keep our town open for business, but these crazed Republicans shouls also think of the money that will be put in thier pokets from the additional brawlers and drunks that will be sitting in jail on these usually lonely Sunday nights perhaps it is a WIN – WIN situation
Christina