What is the minimum age to serve alcohol at a lounge/bar in Chicago?

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I know you need to be 21 to bartend, but what is the minimum legal age to be a server?
 
All persons serving, selling or delivering alcoholic drinks must be 18 years or older, unless increased to age 19, 20, or 21 by local ordinance. Check with the local liquor commissioner (generally the Mayor), or local ordinances.

and for that matter, you don't have to be 21 to bar tend in Illinois, but Chicago might be an exception.
 
When I lived in Illinois, the age for a waiter/waitress to serve liquor was 19. Actually, when I was 19 , you could drink beer and wine.. but they overturned that law in about 1981.
 
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