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Urbana hearing to prompt recommendation on Windham Garden Hotel liquor license after unpaid hotel taxes and dissolved LLC
Summary
A Urbana hearing officer said he will recommend action on the Windham Garden Hotel’s liquor license after city finance staff reported unpaid hotel taxes for multiple months and state records showed the license-holder LLC was involuntarily dissolved; no representative attended the hearing.
A hearing officer for the City of Urbana said he will file a written recommendation to the mayor, who serves as the local liquor commissioner, after finance staff confirmed hotel-tax delinquencies and state records showed the license-holder company had been dissolved.
“I haven't had any contact with them after we sent the notifications that they were delinquent,” said Chris Francisco of the Urbana finance department, confirming the city had not heard from the hotel or its listed manager. Francisco added that the company provided copies of checks for September, October and November 2025 along with tax returns, “but we do not have any record of receiving those checks.”
The hearing, opened by acting hearing officer David Westerner, focused on a renewal license issued for the Windham Garden Hotel at 101 West Kankakee Street in Urbana for the July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026 license year. Westerner read the notice's bases for suspension or revocation: the notice alleges V3 LLC failed to file signed, sworn original hotel-tax returns and failed to timely pay hotel taxes as required by Urbana City Code sections 22-63 and 22-61 for multiple months in 2025 and January 2026.
Westerner also told the record that Illinois Secretary of State records show V3 LLC was involuntarily dissolved on Sept. 13, 2024 — a corporate status issue that predates the renewal period. He cited an Illinois Liquor Control Commission field-inspection (LC1) report provided to the company's manager, Rajes Patel, which said the state liquor license was not displayed and had been invalid for 733 days, that the local license was not available (the one displayed had expired June 30, 2025), and that other liquor-related deficiencies were observed during an inspection on March 4, 2026, at about 11:45 a.m.
City staff said they attempted follow-up: Francisco said she asked the company to check its bank records to confirm whether the submitted checks cleared and that the most recent request for that information was sent on Feb. 2; she received no response. Finance confirmed the accounts identified in the notice remain delinquent and that the city has not received payment or contact from V3 LLC or the Windham Garden Hotel.
No representative of V3 LLC or the Windham Garden Hotel appeared at the hearing. Westerner closed the public proceeding at 2:55 p.m. and said he will review the submitted records and file a written recommendation to the mayor/local liquor commissioner for final disposition of the license. The city will rely on the administrative record, the finance office's account of unpaid taxes, and the LC1 inspection report in making that recommendation.
