Newly issued Illinois liquor licenses, updated every weekday.

The Illinois record this page reads lists licenses once they're issued, not applications while they're pending; Illinois publishes it at ilccportal.illinois.gov. A newly issued license is the public sign of a place about to open. This page reads that record as often as Illinois updates it and lists the new licenses by county, city and license type, each linked back to the record.

Yes. The free Watch email sends each week's Illinois list on Monday: city, license type, status and date, without business names. A Illinois subscription, $79 a month, sends every new filing the morning after it appears, with the business name and address, and for new bars and restaurants a phone number or website looked up online where the state prints none. A CSV, an API and webhooks come with every plan.

The Illinois source refreshes every weekday, and this page is rebuilt from it each morning.

Every row is read from ilccportal.illinois.gov, the public record Illinois itself publishes, and links back to it. Nothing here comes from a reseller or a news report.

Every Illinois filing from one full week a few weeks back, in the layout a subscriber gets: business, address, license type, status, the date filed, and a phone or website where we found one. The link to each state record is left blank; subscribers get it. It downloads ready for HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, AgencyZoom or Repsly.

The types you will see most on the Illinois page. 1A Retailer (bar, restaurant or store): The state retail license every bar, restaurant and liquor store holds; the city or county license says what it can actually pour. 1B Caterer: Caterer pouring at events it feeds. 3I Non-resident dealer (under 500,000 gal): Out-of-state supplier shipping into Illinois; no premises to call on. 2B Importing distributor: Distributor that brings product in from other states. 3U Winery shipper (under 250,000 gal): Winery, usually out of state, shipping direct to consumers; no premises to call on. Every row shows the type by its plain name; the i beside it opens the state's own wording.

One-day and temporary permits (weddings, festival booths, charity auctions, tastings), and licenses nobody sells to: wholesalers, suppliers, importers, shippers, carriers, and employee or manager permits. Breweries, wineries and distilleries stay in. The first time we read a state we also treat everything it already listed as the starting point, not as new filings.