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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...


