VIPs Soon To Go BYOB?

By Scott Smith in News on Oct 6, 2006 1:31PM

The Illinois Supreme Court has upheld a Chicago law prohibiting alcohol from being served at clubs that allow nude dancing. Therefore, anyone who likes to sit at VIPs on Kingsbury with a vodka tonic in one hand and a woman who would never talk to you during high school in the other is advised to get there pronto.

The club often tried to work around the law by covering the dancers’ bits with liquid latex, but "investigating police officers indicated that, in person, one could sometimes see through the makeup and latex.” Frankly, we don’t want to see the amount of liquid latex it would take to cover nipples.

In an earlier article, Jennifer Hoyle, a spokeswoman for Chicago’s Law Department said that mixing alcohol with nude dancing would have an "undesirable secondary impact.”

We’re going to admit something here: we’ve been to VIPs. A couple times, actually. And the patrons going in and out of that place were providing a lot less of an “undesirable secondary impact” than the douchebags at Crobar next door. Ask most women who’ve been in a strip club, and they’ll likely tell you that they feel safer there than at, say, Hi-Tops.

Somehow we think the folks at VIPs are going to find some way to benefit from this. Perhaps the gentleman of this particular club will bring in wine, which will lead to a casually dressed woman arriving at the table and offering to “Pop your cork for you, sir?”

But in Vegas, strip joints will allow you to bring beer with you, store it in their cooler outside and let you leave the club to fill up before returning inside to see Crystal on the main stage. Such an arrangement always struck us as a little trashy … er, we mean as having an undesirably secondary impact on the area. Any armchair lawyers want to let us know if such a thing could happen here?