Should a restaurant owner be barred from running for city council if they serve beer with burgers? That’s the question confronting west suburban Geneva — and potentially other Illinois towns — as local leaders revisit rules meant to prevent conflicts of interest in government.
Ald. Mike Bruno says he’s uneasy about allowing liquor license holders to run for Geneva’s City Council, a job that includes deciding the fates of other applicants seeking liquor licenses.
“When I ran for my seat eight years ago, a political bloc then on the council changed the ordinance to allow liquor license holders to hold office,” he told us…