![]() Credit: Headquarters Beercade/ Facebook Headquarters Beercade “Imagine having a bar next to your house,” Colon said in Spanish. ![]() On several occasions, he’s had to tell people arguing or drinking near his front door to get away late in the night. Color Cocktail Factory offers painting and other art classes and allows guests to bring their own alcoholic beverages.Ĭolon and other residents said bar-goers leave garbage, empty beer cans, liquor bottles and urinate on the side of his home. 18th St., and from Color Cocktail Factory, which is housed in the same building as the proposed bar, he said. Longtime Pilsen resident Carlos Colon, whose front door is across the alley from the proposed bar’s front door, said he doesn’t want to see more intoxicated patrons at his doorstep, especially with young grandchildren living inside the home.įor years, Colon, 58, said he’s had to deal with drunk people leaving Simone’s, 960 W. Credit: Headquarters Beercade/ Facebook ‘Imagine having a bar next to your house‘ Following the application, the duo announced preliminary plans for the 4,000-square-foot arcade bar in Eater and aimed to open in 2020. Headquarters Beercade co-owners Chireal Jordan and Brian Galati filed for a liquor license for the Pilsen venue in October 2019. They fear another bar in the area would exacerbate the problem, he said. Residents have expressed frustrations about another nearby bar where patrons are noisy, urinate on homes and leave behind garbage, Sigcho-Lopez said. He said the business, which would sit a few blocks from another bar, would have “deleterious effect” on the quality of life standards of nearby residents. In rejecting the arcade, Sigcho-Lopez said the neighborhood is already dealing with traffic congestion and parking shortages. ![]() Now, the city’s law department is fighting that decision and plan to file an appeal with the Cook County Circuit Court in December. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) have sided with neighbors who say Pilsen doesn’t need another rowdy bar in the area.Īfter the city and the alderman turned down Headquarters’ liquor license application, arcade owners appealed to the Illinois Liquor License Commission, which sided with the bar and granted it a conditional license last month. But the city’s department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protections and Ald. Owners of Headquarters Beercade, an arcade bar in River North, have had their sights set on expanding to 917 W. PILSEN - City officials are heading to court to try to block an arcade bar from opening in Pilsen, escalating a legal battle that has raged on for months.
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