Businesses Found Compliant in Tobacco Checks

The second round of three tobacco compliance checks resulted in zero businesses being found out of compliance.

According to the Kendall County Sheriff’s Office, six businesses were checked Feb. 24 and all of them were found to be in compliance with Illinois tobacco laws.

The compliance checks are performed to determine if local tobacco retailers are complying with state minimum age tobacco laws which prohibit the sale of tobacco to persons under the age of 18, according to the sheriff’s office.

With help from a grant awarded by the Illinois Liquor Control Commission’s “Kids Can’t Buy ‘Em Here” Tobacco Enforcement Program, Kendall County Sheriff’s Office Community Policing Deputies educate tobacco retailers in unincorporated Kendall County on minimum age tobacco laws and the importance of verifying the age of customers before selling age-restricted products such as tobacco, the sheriff’s office said in a release.