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Posts Tagged ‘Big Als’

Local: City willing to risk another lawsuit to protect Big Al’s from competition?

How completely bizarre.
For a little less than five years, the official position of the City of Peoria is that Elliott’s cannot and must not have a liquor license. Because a tiny non-stripper corner of the joint was too close to an apartment complex.
This decision allowed the place to operate as a liquor-free strip joint where [...]

March 25, 2008 in Local
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Circuit court rules Peoria must give strip club a hearing

I’ve received word that the circuit court has ruled that the City of Peoria must give the owners of Elliott’s a hearing over the city’s Liquor Commission’s denial of a liquor license, as was ordered by the Illinois Liquor Commission.
The club’s owners are suing the city of Peoria.
My two cents: I doubt very much this [...]

August 28, 2006 in Overset
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