The city is changing how it reviews operating licenses for businesses that get complaints from neighbors. Last week, the city council pushed through a series of amendments aimed at tightening Chicago’s deleterious impact and public nuisance ordinance — a set of regulations that give residents in Chicago a platform for “addressing negative quality of life and public safety concerns in their neighborhoods” caused by new liquor license applicants or existing liquor establishments.

Remember the old Wendy’s catchphrase, “Where’s the beef?” Well, after all these years I have the answer: At Deuce’s and the Diamond Club, 3505 N. Clark St.

Thieves snuck in overnight between Jan. 16 and 17 and stole the ambiance from a bar in River North. On the afternoon of Jan. 17, police met with the owner of the Green Door Tavern, 678 N. Orleans St., who stated that sometime between that morning and the previous day thieves had entered the premises through a knocked-out basement window and stolen a collection of furnishings from the bar, including some antique liquor bottles and cigar boxes, an antique slot machine, stereo and TV equipment and several pieces of artwork.