2 Oak Forest Businesses Fail Underage Tobacco Sale Checks

Two Oak Forest businesses were cited this month for selling tobacco to minors during a joint compliance operation conducted by the Oak Forest Police and the Illinois Liquor Control Commission.

Oak Forest police conducted the third and final round of the 2014-15 “Kids Can’t Buy Them Here” tobacco compliance checks at various retailers during the evening hours of Wednesday, April 22. The purpose of the K.C.B.T.H. program is to determine which businesses may be selling tobacco products to minors (persons under 18 years of age) within the city. Each retailer who is found in violation of the can be fined from $200 up to 500.

A total of 23 locations were surveyed within the city limits of Oak Forest.

Those cited for non-compliance include:

• Mobile Gas Station, 14701 S. Central Ave.
• Convenient Food Mart located, 15103 S. Cicero Ave.

Businesses in compliance were:

• Circle K, Osco Drug
• Eddy’s Liquors
• Dotty’s
• Marathon Gas Station
• Shell Gas Station (159th St.)
• Seven Eleven (Central Ave.)
• Foremost Liquors
• Phillips 66 Gas Station
• Stop and Go
• Aisha’s Golo Food Mart
• Food 4 Less
• Food 4 Less Fuel Station
• BP Amoco
• Swagat Foods
• Tracy’s Bistro
• Walgreens
• Seven Eleven (167th St.)
• Shell Gas Station (167th St.)
• Rose Liquors

One location surveyed no longer sells tobacco products.