More Illinois towns considering beer delivery, pick-up from restaurants during pandemic

Cities across the state are allowing restaurants to sell packaged liquor for curbside or delivery orders as a way to offset the hit from the state’s prohibition of dine-in service, enacted earlier this month to slow the spread of COVID-19.

Gov. J.B. Pritzker suspended dine-in service at bars and restaurants on March 15. It was part of a series of orders, including a stay-at-home order closing all businesses considered nonessential, the governor said were designed to curb the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus that emerged in late 2019.