License Division

Council Pushes 60-Day Notice For Grocery Store Closings

Ordinance would require food retailers to warn city leaders. Is it enforceable?

Downtown Snack Shop Reopens

Jr's Treats returns with a shortened menu and a promise of 'delicious' additions.

Two East Town Bars, Restaurant Left in Limbo

Business group drops applications for sports bar, cocktail lounge and burrito restaurant.

Sushi Restaurant Offers Grand Opening Deal

Plus: Why the health department closed three downtown restaurants.

City Clears Two of Six Shuttered Pizza Huts to Reopen

But new owner speaks out about frustrations with licensing process.

Individual City License Applications Now Available Online

Milwaukee Officials Promote Municipal ID Program

With deportation raids looming, 'easy and simple' process costs $10 for identification card.

10 minutes and $10 is all you need to get your municipal ID!

License Division Embraces Power of Babel

Babel Blocks will deliver key information about licensing process in other languages.

Vendors can apply to operate in the Capitol Drive Density-Limited Zone

City Could Begin Rejecting Liquor Licenses In Areas With ‘Concentrated Poverty’

Proposal aims to arm council with legally-defensible metrics to block new liquor stores, bars.

Committee approves resolution to explore adding new criteria in certain licensing deliberations

Sports-Focused Tavern Slated To Replace Gene’s Supper Club

Power Lounge & Grill would offer full bar and pub fare in laid-back atmosphere.

Bill Would Allow New Bars To Offer Indoor Cigar, Pipe Smoking

City of Milwaukee could support the bill, but raised questions over regulation.

Council approves extension of notice period for license holders

Special Licenses Committee meeting to include revocation hearing for Third Ward nightclub

Municipal ID program to resume with changes to support COVID-19 health guidelines

New Peruvian Restaurant for West Side

Plus: New bars in East Town, Walker's Point, St. Francis. And Beard nominees shut out.

New Walker’s Point Bar Coming

Called "Night Rider" and "opening soon," sign says. So what happened to "Pub Fiction"?

MKE Business Now Entrepreneurship Summit Set For Saturday, January 26th

Summit to be held at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Elementary School

Top 10 Bar Exams of 2017

Most popular stories: old bars. Corner bars. And some surprises.

License Issues Close South Side Bars

35 taverns on near South Side lost their licenses since 2012.

New City of Milwaukee ID card now available to the public

Informational news conference set for Friday at City Hall

License Division looks to process surge of applications for new taxi permits

News release from the Office of the City Clerk

City Clerk’s office accepting public comment on taxi policy items

The public can offer their input on proposed regulations that will apply to new cab operators, operators who renew their taxicab permits and certified taxicab affiliations in the City of Milwaukee.

Lottery drawing for new cab permits will take place Monday at Centennial Hall

Lottery for 1,706 applicants to be held Monday morning.

Deadline this week for those seeking a shot at new taxicab permits

At 11 a.m. on Monday, March 17, 2014, the City Clerk’s Office will hold a lottery to determine which applicants are allowed to continue in the licensing process.

City will fight last-ditch effort by cab companies to preserve unfair monopoly

The City of Milwaukee will move forward with plans to issue 100 new taxi cab licenses, even as a group of current taxi owners and operators attempt to thwart the legislative process with a last-ditch federal lawsuit.

Nearly 80 Submit “Intent to Apply” Forms for New Taxicab Permits

As of the end of business today, 79 “Intent to Apply” forms for the new taxicab vehicle permits have been received by the License Division of City Clerk’s office.

Public Works Committee to Hear Plans for New Taxicab Permits

Tomorrow’s meeting of the Common Council’s Public Works Committee will include testimony about the process for issuing 100 new taxicab vehicle permits – including a possible lottery for those permits if necessary.

3rd annual MKE Business Now Summit Tackles Entrepreneurship and Job Creation

Alderwoman Milele A. Coggs is again sponsoring the MKE Business Now entrepreneurship summit on Saturday, January 25.

Legal opinion: City cannot delegate regulation of taxicabs to county

The City of Milwaukee may not legally delegate its authority to regulate and license taxicabs and taxicab operators to Milwaukee County, according to an opinion released this week by the Office of City Attorney Grant F. Langley.

Will City Smooth The Way for Silk?

Silk applies to run strip club in city-owned garage across from Bradley Center.

New alcohol beverage license applicants: please make an appointment

The License Division has begun handling new alcohol beverage license applicants by appointment only.