Verilife at 1816 S. Arlington Heights Road has been serving recreational and medical cannabis customers across Chicago’s northwest suburbs since 2018, operating inside Arlington Town Square at the intersection of Golf Road and Arlington Heights Road. The location sits just off the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90), making it one of the most highway-accessible dispensaries in Lake and Cook counties Read more...

Sunnyside Cannabis Dispensary at 830 Milwaukee Avenue sits at the southwest corner of Milwaukee and Deerfield Roads in Buffalo Grove, a high-traffic suburban intersection in Lake County that puts it within easy reach of Vernon Hills, Wheeling, Libertyville, Deerfield, Northbrook, and Highland Park. Operated by Cresco Labs — one of the largest cannabis companies in the country and the producer Read more...

Sunnyside Cannabis Dispensary at 1704 S Neil Street in Champaign opened on January 1, 2020 — the first day legal adult-use cannabis sales began in Illinois — as one of Cresco Labs’ original five Sunnyside locations in the state. The Champaign store was among the busiest openings in the region that day, drawing customers from across the Champaign-Urbana metro and Read more...

Zen Leaf at 1301 S Western Avenue sits at the eastern edge of Pilsen in Chicago’s 60608 ZIP, just off the Eisenhower Expressway (I-290) and a short walk from the CTA Pink Line Western stop. The location operates under the Zen Leaf brand, part of Verano’s national retail network, and formerly operated as The THC Center before the rebrand brought Read more...

nuEra Cannabis at 1308 W North Avenue in River West sits just off the I-90 expressway in one of Chicago’s most centrally located dispensary addresses, within easy reach of the North/Clybourn Red Line stop and the Damen Blue Line station, with free on-site parking for drivers coming in from the expressway. The store opened as NuMed, one of Illinois’ original Read more...

Ascend Cannabis Dispensary in Logan Square occupies a distinctive corner position where Fullerton Avenue meets Milwaukee Avenue in one of Chicago’s most vibrant neighborhood commercial strips, and it has been part of the neighborhood’s cannabis history since February 2016 — when it opened as Modern Cannabis and became Chicago’s second licensed dispensary, a week after Dispensary 33 in Andersonville. The Read more...

Cannabist at 4758 N Milwaukee Avenue is the Jefferson Park neighborhood’s home dispensary, sitting along one of Chicago’s great diagonal commercial corridors on the Northwest Side in the 60630 ZIP code. Formerly operating as Columbia Care Chicago, the location rebranded to Cannabist and continues serving the same community of Jefferson Park, Portage Park, Norwood Park, and Edison Park residents who’ve Read more...

Dispensary 33 at 5001 N. Clark Street in Andersonville made history when it opened in December 2015 as Chicago’s first licensed cannabis dispensary, and it has never stopped accumulating firsts. On January 1, 2020, when Illinois recreational sales went live at midnight, the first legal recreational cannabis purchase in Illinois history was made right here, at Clark and Argyle, by Read more...

Maribis of Chicago at 4570 S Archer Avenue is a cannabis dispensary on the Southwest Side serving the Brighton Park, Archer Heights, Bridgeport, and McKinley Park communities along one of the neighborhood’s main commercial corridors. The store is one of four Maribis locations across Illinois — alongside a Westchester location and two Springfield stores — and carries both medical and Read more...

Curaleaf at 923 W. Weed Street sits in one of the more memorable addresses in Chicago cannabis — a former industrial building in Lincoln Park that previously housed Dinosaur Bar-B-Que and, before that, the nightclubs Zentra and Mask, now operating as a recreational dispensary on a street whose name needs no explanation. The location opened in summer 2020 as Windy Read more...

Consume Cannabis at 6428 N. Milwaukee Avenue occupies a distinctive position on Chicago’s Far Northwest Side — at the top of the Milwaukee Avenue corridor where the city meets the inner suburbs of Park Ridge and Niles, in a neighborhood that blends Edison Park bungalows with Norwood Park commuters and Oriole Park families. Opened in January 2020 as one of Read more...

Ascend Cannabis Dispensary at 1014 Eastport Plaza Drive in Collinsville is Ascend Wellness Holdings’ flagship Illinois location, sitting just off the I-55/70 interchange at Exit 10 in Madison County’s Metro East corridor — a position that makes it one of the most conveniently accessible dispensaries for St. Louis-area residents crossing into Illinois for legal cannabis. The store operates in the Read more...

Sunnyside Danville at 369 Lynch Drive opened on May 27, 2020, as the first cannabis dispensary ever to operate in eastern Illinois — a milestone for Vermilion County and the communities stretching east toward the Indiana border that had no access to a licensed retail store before Cresco Labs brought the Sunnyside brand here as its sixth Illinois location. The Read more...

nuEra Cannabis at 504 Riverside Drive sits on the riverfront side of East Peoria, Illinois, directly across the Illinois River from Peoria and within easy reach of two of the region’s most visited destinations — the Par-A-Dice Hotel Casino and the Peoria Riverfront Museum. The store is accessible via I-74 and US-24, making it a natural stop for both East Read more...

Sunnyside in Elmwood Park holds a piece of Illinois cannabis history — it was one of just five Sunnyside locations that opened on January 1, 2020, the first day adult-use cannabis sales went live in the state, drawing early morning crowds along Grand Avenue for what was then a genuinely historic retail moment. The store is positioned along West Grand Read more...

Zen Leaf Cannabis Dispensary at 1804 Maple Avenue sits in the heart of downtown Evanston, inside the Maple Avenue parking garage at one of the North Shore’s most transit-accessible retail corners. The Davis Street CTA Purple Line stop and Metra Davis Street station are steps away, making this the easiest dispensary to reach without a car on Chicago’s entire north Read more...

The Dispensary at 1801 16th Avenue in Fulton has been the only licensed cannabis dispensary in the northwest corner of Illinois since it was established in late 2014 — the first and only permit awarded for ISP District 1 when Illinois launched its medical cannabis program. Founded by a local owner with deep roots in the area, the store has Read more...

Nature’s Treatment of Illinois, known locally as NTI, is a locally owned cannabis operation with deep roots in the region that began in Milan before expanding its footprint to Knox County. The Galesburg location at 735 W Main Street is a recreational adult-use-only store — Illinois medical card patients are directed to the Milan location — and serves the western Read more...

Medical Cannabis Outreach at 540 N Commercial Street, Suite 420 in Harrisburg is the Southern Illinois anchor clinic for MCO’s statewide medical cannabis card certification network. Harrisburg serves as the Saline County seat and the primary population center for the rural “Little Egypt” corridor of far southern Illinois, an area that includes Eldorado, Carrier Mills, and Galatia and sits at Read more...

Windy City Cannabis at 1137 West 175th Street is anchored in the south suburban Cook County corridor, serving Homewood and the dense cluster of residential communities that fan out along the 175th Street corridor — Hazel Crest, Glenwood, Flossmoor, Olympia Fields, South Holland, Lansing, and Chicago Heights. The store operates as one of just two Windy City Cannabis locations with Read more...

Curaleaf at 8340 S Roberts Road operates in Justice, Illinois, a southwest Cook County village positioned along Roberts Road (Illinois Route 171) between Bridgeview and Willow Springs — a well-trafficked suburban arterial that draws customers from a broad cluster of neighboring communities. The store was originally a Windy City Cannabis location before it was acquired as part of Curaleaf’s purchase Read more...

Windy City Cannabis at 719 West Union Avenue in Litchfield is one of the most distinctive locations in the Windy City Cannabis network — one of only three WCC stores in Illinois (alongside Homewood and Posen) that carries a full medical dispensary menu alongside recreational products. The other WCC locations serve recreational customers only and can offer medical card holders Read more...

The Hemp Center of Northern Illinois at 6739 Broadcast Parkway in Loves Park was founded in 2019 by Laura Renner, who spent four and a half years working in the medical marijuana industry before opening the store. What she found in that time was a CBD market full of products and almost no one with the knowledge to explain them Read more...

Consume Cannabis at 8195 Express Drive in Marion is not just a dispensary — it holds Illinois medical cannabis license DISP000001, the state’s very first medical cannabis dispensary license, making the Marion location the original anchor of Illinois’ legal cannabis program. The store sits along Express Drive in Marion, the Williamson County seat and a regional hub in Southern Illinois, Read more...