Boystown bar Cocktail is closed for the second time in recent months due to a failure to pay taxes owed from an audit last year.
Cocktail's liquor license was revoked on Nov. 28, according to the Illinois Liquor Commission website.
The bar also lost its license in August for failure to pay. The license was revoked in mid-September, and the bar was shuttered for three days.
Jacob Meister, the attorney who represents Cocktail owners Dustin Hoffman and John "Geno" Zaharakis called the revocation "an oversight."
"It was mistake," Meister told Windy City Times.
Zaharakis and Hoffman were out of town at the time of the revocation, Meister said.
Meister said that the bar is expected to open by Tuesday or Wednesday. It is not known how much Cocktail owes in overdue taxes.
Asked if Cocktail was experiencing financial problems, Meister said that the bar was recovering from a bad economy and from costs associated with a recent renovation. Still he said, the bar is not in financial trouble.
It has been a rocky year for Cocktail, after the bar smacked its landlord, management company and two former employees with a lawsuit, alleging that they were conspiring together to destroy the bar's good name and steal its property. Following the lawsuit, Zaharakis announced that he intended to sell the bar, but that deal fell through, Meister confirmed.
Now, Meister said, Hoffman and Zaharakis "are in it for the long haul."
Meister said that the tax problems also have nothing to do with the bar's lawsuit.
Cocktail has been a popular Boystown hangout since 1996, when Zaharakis opened on the corner of Roscoe and Halsted.
Windy City Times will update as details become available.