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Under a relaxed liquor law advanced Wednesday over the objections of police and inner-city aldermen, alcohol sales may begin at 10am instead of the current 11am.
Michael McCotter, the Chicago Police Department's commander of special events, said he's concerned that the extra hour will fuel more drunkenness at events like the Gay Pride, South Side Irish parades and Cubs games. Like Cubs fans haven't already mastered getting hammered?
And while Ald. Shirley Coleman (16th) doesn't worry about champagne brunches in her Englewood ward, she's concerned that the earlier start to Sunday liquor sales will pave the way for packaged goods stores to serve up a "brunch" of six-packs and booze.
While Chicagoist was a little young to remember the debates at the time, we're sure there was similar outrage when the Sunday liquor sales time was moved from noon to 11am back in 1989. But Sunday ain't exactly the "Lord's Day" as it once was, and if we can start drinking at 7am every other day of the week, then shouldn't we really be pushing for a 7am start time on Sunday, too? Hopefully, gaining an extra hour will spread out the brunch rush so there won't be an hour wait at Bongo Room. And Chicagoist needs an extra hour of drinking on Sundays in order to be able to watch the Bears!
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Having spent a few recent weekends in Indiana, where they don't allow any Sunday liquor sales at all, even the post-noon rule is fine with me in comparison.
Ten a.m., though, works better. Puritanical rules suck.
Yeah, those no liquor on Sundays rules suck. What about us Jews? It's not our holy day. We should get some sort of special ID card than lets us buy at 7am on Sunday and in states that ban Sunday sales.
Ah, Minnesota, where college students frequently find themselves piling into cars to drive to Wisconsin becuase they've suddenly realized that the liquor cabinet is empty, people are coming over in an hour and, whoops, it's after 10 on a Friday night and all the liquor stores are closed. Or after 8 during the week. Or Sunday.
The Booze Hound in me does love Chicago.
I wouldn't hold out hope on The Bongo Room... On the weekends, there's usually a line down the sidewalk before they open, so as soon as they open the doors, there's already an hour wait...