ALTON – Alton officials are set to consider delaying the effective date of their city-wide elimination of late night liquor licenses on Monday, Nov. 24, 2025.
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A resolution appears on Monday’s Committee of the Whole agenda which would allow businesses to keep their late night liquor licenses until April 1, 2026.
If approved, the item would go next to the Alton City Council on Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025 for final approval. The City Council meeting was moved from its usual Wednesday date in light of the Thanksgiving holiday this week.
Under the previously passed version of the resolution, businesses were set to lose their late night liquor licenses on Dec. 31, 2025 at 11:59 p.m., which would have forced bars across the city to stop selling alcohol at 1 a.m. on New Year’s Day 2026.
Aside from taking effect on April 1, 2026, the resolution remains otherwise unchanged from the version previously passed along a 5-2 vote by the City Council. The newly amended resolution was referred to the committee by Alderwoman Martha Pfister, who first proposed the ban on late night liquor licenses.
The resolution call for an ordinance on the matter to be introduced to the City Council for a first reading with no vote before a second reading with a final vote at future City Council meetings. Stay tuned to Riverbender.com for the latest developments as the item goes through the ordinance process.
Follow the discussion and vote on the effective date extension for the late night liquor license ban tonight, Nov. 24, 2025 at 6 p.m., live on Riverbender.com/video/live.
