Middleton v. License Appeal Commission

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE McNAMARA

delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs filed an administrative review action in the circuit court of Cook County to set aside an order of the local liquor control commissioner of the City of Chicago. The order, which was affirmed by the city’s License Appeal Commission, suspended for 15 days the retail liquor license held by plaintiffs. The trial court sustained the order, and plaintiffs appeal. The charge against plaintiffs was that they permitted an assault to take place upon one of their patrons in their licensed premises, in violation of the Liquor…