Afternoon Briefing: Evanston adjusts liquor license for TBD Northwestern football games

Good afternoon, Chicago.

A Morton Grove company found it’s hard to plan a tailgating party when you don’t know what time it’s going to start.

With that in mind, Catering by Michaels reached out to Evanston to ask the City Council to extend its liquor license to allow the company to serve alcohol up to three hours before two Northwestern University football games this October.

The problem, Assistant City Attorney Brian George explained in a memo to the council, is the Oct. 5 and Oct. 19 games have not yet received a scheduled start time. The original liquor license allows the company to serve starting at 10 a.m., but many college football games start at 11 a.m.

Much to the relief of Catering by Michaels’ chief operating officer Jeff Ware, the council approved the request.

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