Mayor, Ald. Beach must keep close watch on COLICM
January 22nd, 2008 at 10:35pm Chuck Sweeny
Rockford can’t afford a repeat of last weekend’s barroom brawl at the COLICM. Efforts underway to rehab the aging retail strip from Fairview to Alpine, a priority of Ald. Frank Beach, R-10th, simply can’t withstand such mayhem. Investors, especially in this financially risky environment, won’t be willing to put money into a retail and entertainment area that people don’t consider safe.
Mayor Larry Morrissey has acted swiftly to send a message to the tavern’s new owners, and shut down the sale of liquor at the COLICM until the owners properly transfer the license from the old owners to themselves. The new owners had better concentrate on improving their behavior standards. The mayor, who is the liquor commissioner, an Ald. Beach, must keep a sharp eye on this establishment..
Entry Filed under: Uncategorized
4 Comments Add your own
1. Quintessential Ray | January 24th, 2008 at 2:39 pm
Chuck,
Nice commentary. Being a longtime Rockfordian, I can’t help but wonder what John McNamara would have done in this case. Or Charles Box. What do you think?
2. Behme up Scotty | January 24th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
How about Paul Logli?? If he were still State’s Attorney he would have come down on them like a ton of bricks. Bring back the strong arm of the law.
3. Loglincoln | January 25th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Behme, I agree. You ever been in that COLICM? It’s no Quark.
4. Behme up Scotty | January 25th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
The Quark rocked, Loglincoln. Chuck, you ever hang out at the Quark?
Leave a Comment
Some HTML allowed:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>
Trackback this post | Subscribe to the comments via RSS Feed