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Jason Levin, left, and Joshua Mezher, founders of A Pot for Pot company from Oakland, California, display their products at the Independent Garden Center Show at McCormick Place in Chicago on Tuesday. This year the show includes a cannabis corner for garden shops that are selling equipment to people who want to grow their own marijuana at home.

‘Blue Apron meets Chia Pet for growing cannabis’: Companies introduce products for grow-your-own marijuana market

September 11, 2019 at 2:12 p.m.

All it takes to grow marijuana at home is sunlight and water — and some nutrient-rich soil specially formulated for cannabis plants. Starting next year, medical marijuana patients in Illinois...

An artist's rendering from Cresco Labs depicts the way the interior of their stores will look.

Mag Mile high: Cannabis companies are scouting Michigan Avenue for pot shops

September 10, 2019 at 7:28 p.m.

Cannabis companies are eyeing sites on some of the priciest retail streets in Chicago, including the Magnificent Mile, as they get ready to sell recreational marijuana in Illinois. Dispensaries have...

Uptake Technologies and General Electric have settled a lawsuit that alleged the Chicago-based company engaged in a "ruthless scheme to poach" executives and trade secrets from GE.

Uptake and GE settle lawsuit that accused the tech company of ‘ruthless scheme to poach’ executives and trade secrets

August 2, 2019 at 3:00 p.m.

Uptake Technologies and General Electric have settled a lawsuit that alleged that Chicago-based Uptake engaged in a "ruthless scheme to poach" executives and trade secrets from GE. Terms of the...

State Rep. Bob Morgan, from left, who sponsored a bill to make the medical marijuana program permanent, speaks with state Sen. Don Harmon and Vicki Thomas, executive director of the legislative rules committee, in 2014.

Illinois marijuana growers spent about $600,000 on political giving leading to the pot legalization vote. Here’s where the money went.

August 2, 2019 at 3:52 p.m.

Marijuana cultivating companies that persuaded Illinois lawmakers to give them first access to recreational customers pushed for the lucrative advantage with the backing of a steady flow of campaign cash,...

Cresco Labs changes name, look of dispensaries as recreational marijuana sales near. ‘We want this store to fit in the retail corridors.’

July 29, 2019 at 8:46 a.m.

Cresco Labs is renovating its 56 marijuana dispensaries around the country, including five in Illinois, and reopening them under a single brand name: Sunnyside. The dispensaries will be welcoming and...

Outcome Health co-founders Shradha Agarwal, left, and Rishi Shah.

FBI alleges mail and wire fraud by Outcome Health and its co-founders in briefly unsealed court document

July 29, 2019 at 8:37 a.m.

The FBI was conducting a criminal investigation of Outcome Health and its executives as recently as November, nearly a year after the company settled a civil lawsuit by big-name investors...

Cresco Labs wants to open a medical marijuana dispensary at this location in the 3500 block of North Clark Street in Chicago. This sign in the window of John Barleycorn restaurant indicates a special use request.

Marijuana company Cresco Labs is looking to relocate its medical dispensary near Wrigley Field

July 19, 2019 at 5:34 p.m.

Cresco Labs, one of the largest cannabis companies in the state, is looking for a bigger home for its MedMar Lakeview medical dispensary. A public notice appeared recently in the...

What’s the best way to get to O’Hare? We sent reporters by car, ride-share, CTA and Metra to find out.

July 25, 2024 at 2:44 p.m.

For more than a decade, Chicago politicians have talked about a faster way to get between downtown and Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. Mayor Richard M. Daley pictured a high-speed rail...

Grassroots Cannabis is set to be acquired for $875 million, becoming the latest Chicago-based marijuana company to draw a blockbuster price tag from an out-of-state operator.

Another marijuana company is paying big to get in on the Illinois market. Chicago-based Grassroots Cannabis to be sold for $875 million.

July 17, 2019 at 2:44 p.m.

Grassroots Cannabis is set to be acquired for $875 million, becoming the latest Chicago-based marijuana company to draw a blockbuster price tag from an out-of-state operator. Curaleaf Holdings, based in...

Tiffany Spraggins, who works on the internal website of consulting giant Accenture, is seen July 11, 2019. Spraggins is working toward an associate degree from Wilbur Wright College, part of the City Colleges of Chicago.

Lightfoot and Pritzker tout apprenticeships to make sure talented local residents get jobs at local companies

July 15, 2019 at 11:04 a.m.

Earning a degree is expensive. Earning a degree as a single mother is harder. And for Tiffany Spraggins, who wanted to be a computer technician, it seemed downright impossible. Last...

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