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Chicago's 15 tracked dispensaries sit in neighborhoods with the right mix of commercial zoning, foot traffic, and demographic fit, and they are spread thinly rather than clustered. Logan Square is the one corridor where two of them sit close together: Ascend Logan Square IL and BLOC Kedzie Chicago IL operate within a few miles of each other along the Milwaukee Avenue and Kedzie Avenue corridors that define Logan Square and the adjacent Avondale neighborhood. That pair is the nearest thing the city has to a comparison-shopping corridor among the stores we read, and it is the easiest place in Chicago to check two menus in one trip.

Outside Logan Square the tracked stores are dispersed. Cookies Chicago Clinton IL anchors the River North and Fulton Market approach on Clinton Street, with Ascend River North IL covering the same downtown edge. nuEra Chicago IL, Maribis Chicago IL and Consume Chicago IL spread across the north and west sides. Prairie Cannabis South Loop IL sits on Roosevelt Road at the Loop's southern edge. Further south, Mission South Shore IL is the only tracked store, which is worth knowing if you shop that side of the city — the next nearest options are in Chicago Ridge and Calumet City, both suburban.

Chicago adult-use cannabis carries a layered tax burden. The Illinois excise (10% at or under 35% THC, 25% above it, 20% on edibles and other infused products) stacks with the 6.25% state rate, Cook County's 3% cannabis tax and Chicago's own 3%. A $40 eighth of flower at or under 35% THC is about $48.90 at checkout in the city, before local general sales tax; a $40 vape above 35% THC is about $54.90. A suburban store outside the city limit drops Chicago's 3%, $1.20 on that eighth, but its village may levy a cannabis tax of up to 3% of its own.