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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Rowland partially grants an Illinois city’s motion to dismiss a local bar’s due process and equal protection claims. The city temporarily suspended the bar’s liquor license after a “criminal incident” took place outside it in 2021, but the parties reached a settlement that allowed the bar to stay open. A second incident resulted in another suspension in 2022, but after that incident the bar’s Black owners called into questions the city’s racial biases, given that other non-Black owned bars in town had faced less stringent settlement agreements to address criminal activity. The bar’s owners subsequently brought due process and equal protection claims at the state and federal level. The court now dismisses the due process claims, but allows the equal protection claims to stand.