Champaign places temporary restrictions on alcohol sales as city gears up for Illini-Hawkeyes game
March Madness fans are attending watch parties in Chicago on Saturday for the Illinois-Iowa college basketball game. Meanwhile, as the Fighting Illini take on the Hawkeyes in the Elite Eight, there will be new liquor laws in place in Champaign, Illinois.
The mayor signed an executive order, citing concerns to public health.After 3 p.m. Saturday, bars and restaurants cannot serve alcohol in glass containers. And retailers are banned from selling packaged alcohol or to-go cocktails after 6 p.m. Alcohol deliveries are also being banned after 6 p.m.As the Fighting Illini take on the Iowa Hawkeyes in the Elite Eight, there will be new liquor laws in place in Champaign.Given the success Illinois coach Brad Underwood has had with recruits from Eastern Europe, he plans to keep adding such players to his team and is sure that many others will follow suit. Illinois' Ben Humrichous knocks the ball away from Iowa's Kael Combs during an Elite Eight game in the NCAA college basketball tournament Saturday, March 28, 2026, in Houston.Underwood's third-seeded Illini meet Big Ten foe and No. 9 seed Iowa Thursday night in the NCAA Tournament's South Region final with a trip to the Final Four on the line. Led by first-year coach Ben McCollum, who won four Division II national titles at Northwest Missouri State, Iowa is in the Elite Eight for the first time since 1987. Illinois is aiming for its sixth trip to the Final Four and first since 2005, while Iowa looks to return to the national semifinals for the first time since 1980 and fourth overall. Neither school has won a national title.UFC set to bring cage-match bout to White House in June
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