The council committee on license and consumer protection unanimously approved a plan on Tuesday - allowing bars and restaurants to expand sidewalk patios, and in some cases spill into streets.
The City Council on Wednesday unanimously approved a plan to make permanent an outdoor dining program that helped Chicago restaurants and bars survive the pandemic.
Ald. Walter Burnett said aldermen know the needs of their ward better than anyone, so it's important that they have a say in which businesses can get and keep permits for outdoor dining. Those expanded outdoor dining rules expired at the end of last year, but Johnson and several City Council members hammered out a plan to make them a permanent part of the city's municipal code, and allow restaurants and bars to open those larger patios and sidewalk cafés again this year.
Newly-elected Ald. Bennett Lawson said outdoor dining has been a vital benefit for the Lakeview community he represents, noting that when he was running for office, more constituents asked him about the popular outdoor dining program on Broadway than about Wrigley Field. Meyer estimated that permits from sidewalk cafés and other outdoor dining venues brought in an extra $550,000 a year in revenue for the city from permit fees alone.
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