Retail Tobacco Vendor License

Required by any person selling or giving away tobacco products. (Ord. 82-0-96)

TERM: Calendar Year.

FEE: Per location. See Fee Schedule

RENEWABLE: Yes. Invoice mailed by City of Evanston in November.

TRANSFERABLE: No. New owner must submit application to Health Department and receive license before any sales may take place.

CONTACT: Ellyn Golden, Environmental Health License Coordinator, (847) 866-2947 or egolden@cityofevanston.org

APPLICATION: Tobacco License Application
NOTE: tobacco products may not be sold within 150 feet (lot line to lot line) of any high school, middle school or elementary school or by use of vending machines unless such vending machines are located in areas not open to the public.

IMPORTANT: No food or beverage may be sold, served or consumed in a licensed establishment that permits smoking.

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT SMOKING IS PROHIBITED IN

  • All businesses, including all restaurants, bars, and sidewalk cafes;
  • All public enclosed areas, all workplaces, all schools;
  • Beaches, playgrounds and tot lots;
  • All common areas in apartment buildings and condominiums and housing cooperatives; and
  • Within 25 feet of any entrance to an enclosed area in which smoking is prohibited.

Evanston City Code

  • Title 3 Chapter 16 Cigarettes and Tobacco Products
  • Title 3 Chapter 2 Section 14 Cigarette Tax
  • Title 8 Chapter 21 Clean Air Act - Smoking 

Cook County

  • Chapter 74 Taxation Article XI. Tobacco Tax