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A bucket of flower buds is seen at Illinois Grown Medicine, a medical marijuana cultivation center, on May 6, 2019, in Elk Grove Village.

Recreational weed is legal in Illinois, but applications for medical marijuana cards are up. Here’s why.

January 22, 2020 at 10:20 a.m.

Since recreational weed went on sale in Illinois three weeks ago, long lines have formed outside dispensaries, stores have established buying limits and some have run out of product. All...

Former Outcome Health employee Kathryn Choi appears at Dirksen U.S. Courthouse on Jan. 16, 2020.

Former Outcome Health analysts change pleas to guilty, are cooperating with investigation

January 16, 2020 at 5:02 p.m.

Two former Outcome Health employees pleaded guilty to charges of felony conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with their work at the Chicago-based company. The former employees, Kathryn Choi...

Customers wait in long lines on the second day of recreational cannabis sales on Jan. 2, 2020, along Clark Street in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago.

Illinois warns recreational marijuana stores experiencing shortage: Make sure you have enough for medical patients.

January 15, 2020 at 3:19 p.m.

Amid statewide marijuana shortages, an Illinois regulator warned dispensaries they are required by law to keep enough product on hand for medical patients. Recreational marijuana went on sale in Illinois...

Workers pack marijuana-infused gummies at Cresco Labs in Joliet on Dec. 17, 2019. Workers at the facility voted Jan. 14, 2020, to be represented by the United Food & Commercial Workers, the union said.

Unions are pushing to organize Illinois’ new marijuana industry. Some weed companies are opening the doors for them.

January 15, 2020 at 7:47 a.m.

Workers at the Cresco Labs marijuana grow facility in Joliet voted Tuesday to unionize, two weeks after recreational weed sales started in Illinois. Workers at the facility voted 58 to...

Cresco Labs employee Nicholas Stankus counts out cash received for a medical cannabis sale on Dec. 30, 2019.

Illinois dispensaries sold more than $19.7 million in recreational marijuana the first 12 days of sales

January 17, 2020 at 2:29 p.m.

Marijuana shops sold more than $19.7 million in recreational weed the first 12 days of sales in Illinois. The state said consumers made more than 495,000 purchases during that time....

State warns recreational marijuana stores experiencing shortage: Make sure you have enough for medical patients.

January 13, 2020 at 5:02 p.m.

Amid statewide marijuana shortages, an Illinois regulator warned dispensaries they are required by law to keep enough product on hand for medical patients. Recreational marijuana went on sale in Illinois...

Female cloned marijuana plants grow in planters at Revolution cannabis cultivation center May 30, 2019, in Delavan, Illinois. A clone is a cutting from another plant.

Wonder where the recreational marijuana sold in Illinois comes from? Here’s how it’s grown.

January 13, 2020 at 5:42 p.m.

All the marijuana sold in Illinois must be grown in the state, and less than two weeks into legal weed sales, customers are realizing growers' limits. Recreational marijuana sales started...

On the second day of legal recreational cannabis sales, a line of people, including center, John Esquivel, of Nevada, wait outside the Midway Dispensary store , 5648 S. Archer, in Chicago, Thursday, Jan. 2, 2020 to purchase their legal and or medical cannabis.

Marijuana companies seek permission for 3 pot shops in hot spots: Across from Girl & the Goat, in River North and near Clybourn stores

January 10, 2020 at 5:17 p.m.

Four more weed companies submitted applications to the city to open recreational marijuana stores, bringing the tally of potential new pot shops in Chicago to seven. The latest round of...

Amanda Lannert, chief executive officer of Jellyvision, is seen in the company's office in 2012.

Chicago tech company Jellyvision lays off 15% of staffers. ‘This is not a business in duress. It’s a business that wants to be faster and better.’

January 9, 2020 at 4:08 p.m.

Jellyvision laid off 65 people Tuesday, cutting staff by about 15% as the Chicago technology company works to increase revenue and become more nimble. The layoffs at the 18-year-old company...

One week into recreational marijuana sales, Illinois dispensaries say they need more weed, more workers

January 9, 2020 at 10:21 a.m.

A week into recreational marijuana sales in Illinois, some stores have restocked their shelves and restarted sales while others hope to in the coming days. But as the weekend nears,...

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