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...