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...
nuEra Cannabis at 105 E University Avenue in Urbana is one of the company’s original medical dispensary locations, situated in the heart of the Champaign-Urbana metro just blocks from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign campus. The University Avenue corridor puts the store at the intersection of the student-adjacent commercial district and the broader Champaign-Urbana community, serving both the resident 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...
Beyond Hello at 501 Northtown Road in Normal is McLean County’s only dispensary offering both medical and adult-use cannabis under one roof, sitting near the border of Bloomington and Normal just a short drive from Heartland Community College, Fairview Park, and the Illinois State University campus. The location is less than 20 minutes from the Central Illinois Regional Airport, anchoring Read more...
Trinity MMJ’s University Street location at 3125 N University St, Suite B in Peoria is one of only a handful of dispensaries in central Illinois operating full medical and adult-use recreational menus under the same roof. Operated by Nature’s Grace and branded as Trinity Cannabis, the store runs split schedules to serve both patient populations: medical patients gain access as 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...
