weekend approaches, you may be thinking about making some plans.

And if those plans include alcohol, you should know the law where when and how can you drink our Nic Bloomberg has the details in TONIGHTS edition of WT Tw News explains.

>> A Chicago may have become virtually synonymous with speakeasy during prohibition.

But that doesn't mean the Windy City is lawless when it comes to drinking.

In fact, we've got a lot of rules on the books governing when and where we can enjoy an adult beverage.

New York might be the city that never sleeps, but Chicagoans can be night owls rouse is looking to party into the wee hours of the morning.

Just need to keep an eye on the bars can still make or after 02:00AM most nights before 03:00AM on early Sunday morning at the tail end of a wild Saturday course.

That's unless they have a coveted for EM license which actually extends to 05:00AM on Sunday.

If you want to take the party home, you better have a plan to head liquor stores and supermarkets have to stop selling alcohol at midnight every night of the week.

Whether you're I Sunday with a powerful need to chase away a hangover or just your standard Sunday.

Scaries your in luck.

A brunch is just around the corner.

Thanks to a recent move from the city Council restaurants and bars that serve food can start selling alcohol at 9 o'clock on Sunday.

Mornings used to have to wait until after 11.

And if you want to whip up those brunch mimosas at home, the liquor stores can bring you up until 11:00AM Sundays.

But supermarkets can sell you a bottle of bubbly starting at 08:00AM.

>> And some of the barriers to imbibing aren't just about time.

They're also about place.

The city won't issue liquor licenses near most libraries and churches or schools, hospitals and nursing homes and residents can use the power of the ballot box to banish all liquor sales in the precinct where they live.

Perhaps one of the best known know goes is in Chicago's the adult establishments.

Alcohol is prohibited in places that allow fully nude dancing.

>> The City Council did.

He's the rules in recent years to allow alcohol sales in bars and clubs with occasional topless performances with the intention of drawing a crowd more art connoisseur than based.

Boy you or at least so we heard from friend.

So, yeah, we've got rules.

But with nearly 200 breweries, several local distilleries and a questionable obsession with a borderline unpalatable just Chicago is still in drinking It just sometimes takes an ounce or 2 of preparation.

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