William Tell II, Inc. v. Illinois Liquor Control Commission (In Re William Tell II, Inc.)

MEMORANDUM OPINION

FLAUM, District Judge:

This action is an appeal from three related orders of the Bankruptcy Court which required the State of Illinois Liquor Control Commission (the “Commission”) to continue to provide the Debtor, William Tell II, Inc. (“Tell”), a retail liquor license and to suspend operation of a state statutory provision with respect to Tell. For the reasons stated below, those orders are affirmed.

Tell is engaged in the restaurant, liquor lounge and banquet hall business in Countryside, Illinois. Tell makes retail sales of alcoholic liquor as part of its business and it…