Appellate Court of Illinois March 15, 2000, 1 — 98 — 4373 (Osborne v. Stages Music Hall, Inc.)

JUSTICE WOLFSON

delivered the opinion of the court:

The question in this case is whether Stages Music Hall, Inc. (Stages), the owner of a nightclub on Clark Street in Chicago, owed a duty to protect its customer from a third-party criminal attack that took place just outside its entrance doors.