Pritzker Administration Announces Results of Qualifying Applicant
Lottery to Award 55 Conditional Adult-Use Cannabis Dispensing
Organization Licenses
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 [July 30, 2021]
The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IDFPR
or Department) announced today the results of the Qualifying Applicant
Lottery for 55 Conditional Adult-Use Cannabis Dispensary Licenses
(Conditional Licenses), from a pool of 626 unique applicants who scored
85 percent or greater in their applications.
Two additional lotteries are scheduled in the coming weeks for 130
additional Conditional Licenses.
Before Conditional Licenses are issued, the Department will initiate a
review process to ensure applicants selected meet all statutorily
required rules that must be fulfilled before a Conditional License can
be issued.
“Illinois has taken the most comprehensive approach in the country to
putting social justice at the heart of cannabis legalization, and today
is an important day in expanding the diversity of the industry – on top
of all the work we’ve already done to expunge convictions and investing
tens of millions of cannabis revenue into the communities hit hardest by
the war on drugs,” said Toi Hutchinson, senior advisor to the governor
for cannabis. “We look forward to seeing businesses get off the ground
and into this space.”
“We are pleased to announce the results of today’s lottery on this
monumental day, which represents just one of many more steps we will be
taking to help further the Illinois Adult Use Cannabis industry,” said
Mario Treto, Jr., Acting Secretary of the Illinois Department of
Financial and Professional Regulation. “We look forward to ensuring an
inclusive and equitable cannabis program whose makeup accurately
reflects the diversity of our great state of Illinois.”
No individual principal officer or applicant can receive more than two
Conditional Licenses in this lottery. In the event a principal officer
or applicant group has an application selected more than two times, the
principal officer or the applicant group must complete the Department’s
Abandonment Form to notify the Department of the BLS Region in which the
applicant will be declining a Conditional License. Failure to submit the
Abandonment Form within 5 business days after the Department posts the
results of the Qualifying Applicant Lottery will result in the denial of
all Conditional Licenses from this lottery to all applicants associated
with the principal officer or applicant group that is over the limit.
Additionally, an applicant may not have a principal officer who is also
a principal officer in more than ten Early Approval Adult Use Dispensing
Organization Licenses, Conditional Licenses, and Adult Use Dispensing
Organization Licenses. Should a principal officer find themselves in
that situation, the principal officer must choose which license(s) to
abandon by notifying IDFPR in writing. If the principal officer and/or
applicant does not notify IDFPR, the Department will not issue the
applicant all available conditional licenses drawn in this lottery.
IDFPR may also deny issuance of Conditional Licenses to any applicant
who has a principal officer, board member, or person having a financial
or voting interest of 5% or greater who is delinquent in filing any
required tax return or paying any amount owed to the State of Illinois.
Those selected in this lottery who receive a Conditional License shall
have 180 days to identify a physical location for the dispensing
organization’s retail storefront. Groups unable to find a physical
location within 180 days may receive an extension of an additional 180
days from IDFPR or be allowed to transfer their Conditional License to
another BLS Region specified by the Department. If no extension is
granted, the conditional adult use dispensing organization license shall
be rescinded and awarded in accordance to the rules of the Cannabis
Regulation and Tax Act.
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The lottery results may change as a result of court
orders or administrative review.
The second lottery, the Social Equity Justice
Involved Lottery, will be conducted by the Illinois Lottery on
Thursday, August 5, 2021.
The results of the Qualifying Applicant Lottery can be found below.
Results of Lottery for Qualifying Applicant Lottery
For Conditional Licenses Per BLS Region
The Qualifying Applicant Lottery, with 17 BLS Region drawings, was
conducted on 7/29/2021 for 55 Conditional Adult Use Dispensing
Organization Licenses (“Conditional License”). Below are the results
of the drawings for each BLS region identifying the order in which
each Qualifying Applicant was drawn. This order determines the order
in which the Department of Financial and Professional Regulation
(“Department”) will award the available Conditional Licenses in each
BLS region.
Applicants who have the opportunity to be awarded a Conditional
License in the Qualifying Applicant Lottery are subject to strict
limitations on the number of total licenses, as mandated by Public
Act 102-98. An applicant’s failure to report to the Department that
it has exceeded the statutory license limitations will result in the
Department’s refusal to issue any of the Conditional Licenses
resulting from the Qualifying Applicant Lottery.
Below are the Department’s certified results of the Qualifying
Applicant Lottery for each drawing by BLS Region. Each list
identifies the applicants who have an opportunity to receive a
Conditional License from that drawing. In order to receive a
Conditional License, each applicant must satisfy the statutorily
mandated abandonment periods and tax-compliance checks.
Those applicants who have been selected for a conditional license
are subject to the statutory requirements of the principal officer
and license limitations and tax compliance checks, available here.
If an applicant is required to abandon a license because it exceeds
the license limitations, the applicant shall have five business
days, from the day the results of the Qualifying Applicant Lottery
are posted to the Department’s website, to abandon, and the next
drawn applicant will be notified of their opportunity to be awarded
a conditional license. Additionally, if an applicant cannot prove
its tax compliance within 60 days of winning a conditional license
in accordance with 68 IAC 1291.95, the Department will deny issuance
of the Conditional License(s) and the next drawn applicant will be
notified of their eligibility to be awarded a conditional license.
Therefore, the result lists below may change pending the abandonment
of an applicant’s conditional license and/or an applicant’s failure
to prove tax compliance. This means additional applicants, whose
draw order followed the abandoning applicant’s order, may become an
awarded applicant.
The Department’s announcement of this list is its final
administration decision for the Qualifying Applicant Lottery under
Section 15-175 of the Cannabis Regulation and Tax Act (“Act”). The
announced conditional licenses to be awarded may be subject to
change as a result of court orders or administrative review.
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Term |
Meaning |
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Unique Lottery Number |
The Unique Lottery Number is randomly assigned to a Unique
Applicant Number. The Unique Lottery Number will be used to
identify the results of the lottery drawing. |
|
Unique Application Number |
A Unique Application Number was assigned to all
applications. |
|
Applicant Name |
The Applicant Name reflects the entity’s name as submitted
on the original application. |
|
Order Drawn |
This reflects the order in which the Unique Lottery Numbers
were drawn by the Illinois State Lottery. |
BLS Region #1 (Bloomington) 1 Conditional License Available
|
Order Drawn |
Unique Lottery Number |
Unique Application Number |
Applicant Name
|
|
1 |
37 |
3946229 |
LAND OF LINCOLN DISPENSARY LLC |
BLS Region #2 (Cape Girardeau) 1 Conditional License
Available
|
Order Drawn |
Unique Lottery Number |
Unique Application Number |
Applicant Name |
|
1 |
17 |
3946452 |
DO MOR DEVELOPMENT, LLC |
BLS Region #3 (Carbondale-Marion) 1 Conditional License
available
|
Order Drawn |
Unique Lottery Number |
Unique Application Number |
Applicant Name |
|
1 |
43 |
3956505 |
SOCIAL EQUITY INVESTMENTS, L.L.C. |
BLS Region #4 (Champaign-Urbana) 1 Conditional License
available
|
Order Drawn |
Unique Lottery Number |
Unique Application Number |
Applicant Name |
|
1 |
27 |
3946968 |
DSG OPCO IL, LLC |
BLS Region #5 (Chicago-Naperville-Elgin) 36 Conditional
Licenses Available
|
Order Drawn |
Unique Lottery Number |
Unique Application Number |
Applicant Name |
|
1 |
671 |
3951363 |
GREEN & BRANSFORD, LLC |
|
2 |
1874 |
3951784 |
WESTSIDE VISIONARIES LLC |
|
3 |
848 |
3963537 |
GREEN STAR |
|
4 |
1831 |
3949855 |
VILLAGE COURT HOLDINGS, LLC |
|
5 |
1113 |
3949263 |
JOINT VENTURES 1, LLC |
|
6 |
977 |
3949915 |
HIGH HOPES CHICAGO, LLC |
|
7 |
879 |
3953397 |
GREENLEAF INVESTMENT OPERATIONS, LLC |
|
8 |
1317 |
3953066 |
MURRAY FOOD SERVICES, INC. |
|
9 |
437 |
3947835 |
EEL - ILLINOIS LLC |
|
10 |
1184 |
3949750 |
KXD PARTNERS, LLC |
|
11 |
184 |
3963113 |
BOTAVI WELLNESS LLC |
|
12 |
525 |
3951011 |
FAMILY ROOTS, LLC |
|
13 |
1080 |
3953934 |
INLABS I LLC |
|
14 |
1808 |
3948703 |
VERTICAL MANAGEMENT LLC |
|
15 |
18 |
3950814 |
24TH REGIMENT - LATINO VETERANS' UNIT LLC |
|
16 |
1250 |
3950407 |
MARIGROW INC. |
|
17 |
1344 |
3951780 |
NIRVANA MANAGEMENT CORPORATION |
|
18 |
420 |
3951670 |
EARTHMED, LLC |
|
19 |
1834 |
3949887 |
VISE PARTNERS, LLC |
|
20 |
143 |
3962777 |
BLOUNTS&MOORE |
|
21 |
1911 |
3949801 |
WORLD OF WEED |
|
22 |
1340 |
3949648 |
NIRVANA CENTER ILLINOIS, LLC |
|
23 |
931 |
3949285 |
HAAAYY, LLC |
|
24 |
553 |
3952764 |
FLOWER POINTS, LLC |
|
25 |
160 |
3950039 |
BLUE LEAF LLC |
|
26 |
1044 |
3950486 |
ILLINOIS KINDNESS LLC |
|
27 |
302 |
3950459 |
CESAM, LLC |
|
28 |
231 |
3947202 |
CANNA VERDE LLC |
|
29 |
801 |
3951611 |
GREEN & WILLIAMS, LLC |
|
30 |
623 |
3953443 |
GRD ILLINOIS LLC |
|
31 |
1504 |
3966035 |
RENU LLC |
|
32 |
1129 |
3963034 |
KAP-JG LLC |
|
33 |
1154 |
3953006 |
KECHWA, LLC |
|
34 |
779 |
3948754 |
GREEN & RANDLE, LLC |
|
35 |
554 |
3963130 |
FLY SOCIETY GROUP OF AURORA, LLC |
|
36 |
536 |
3952591 |
FAMILY TREES LLC |
BLS Region #6 (Danville) 1 Conditional License available
|
Order Drawn |
Unique Lottery Number |
Unique Application Number |
Applicant Name |
|
1 |
46 |
3961825 |
PARKWAY DISPENSARY |
BLS Region #7 (Davenport-Moline-Rock Island) 1 Conditional
License available
|
Order Drawn |
Unique Lottery Number |
Unique Application Number |
Applicant Name |
|
1 |
86 |
3960742 |
WEST SIDE COLLABORATIVE, LLC |
BLS Region #8 (Decatur) 1 Conditional License available
|
Order Drawn |
Unique Lottery Number |
Unique Application Number |
Applicant Name |
|
1 |
9 |
3961283 |
CLEAN SLATE OPCO, LLC |
17BLS Region #9 (Kankakee) 1 Conditional License available
|
Order Drawn |
Unique Lottery Number |
Unique Application Number |
Applicant Name |
|
1 |
29 |
3960622 |
GRD ILLINOIS LLC |
BLS Region #10 (Peoria) 2 Conditional Licenses available
|
Order Drawn |
Unique Lottery Number |
Unique Application Number |
Applicant Name |
|
1 |
53 |
3955455 |
FELLO INC. |
|
2 |
136 |
3955856 |
SOCIAL EQUITY INVESTMENTS, L.L.C. |
BLS Region #11 (Rockford) 1 Conditional License available
|
Order Drawn |
Unique Lottery Number |
Unique Application Number |
Applicant Name |
|
1 |
38 |
3957176 |
DMR WELLNESS LLC |
BLS Region #12 (St. Louis) 3 Conditional Licenses available
|
Order Drawn |
Unique Lottery Number |
Unique Application Number |
Applicant Name |
|
1 |
86 |
3954485 |
FORTUNATE SON PARTNERS LLC |
|
2 |
67 |
3962702 |
EMERALD COAST, LLC |
|
3 |
44 |
3954590 |
CTY ENTERPRISES, LLC |
BLS Region #13 (Springfield) 1 Conditional License available
|
Order Drawn |
Unique Lottery Number |
Unique Application Number |
Applicant Name |
|
1 |
31 |
3943165 |
HERBAN QUALITY CONTROL |
BLS Region #14 (Northwest Illinois nonmetropolitan) 1
Conditional License available
|
Order Drawn |
Unique Lottery Number |
Unique Application Number |
Applicant Name |
|
1 |
111 |
3959977 |
KANA GROVE NORTH LLC |
BLS Region #15 (West Central Illinois nonmetropolitan) 1
Conditional License available
|
Order Drawn |
Unique Lottery Number |
Unique Application Number |
Applicant Name |
|
1 |
128 |
3958583 |
TRIUMPH 7 INVESTMENTS, LLC |
BLS Region #16 (East Central Illinois nonmetropolitan) 1
Conditional License available
|
Order Drawn |
Unique Lottery Number |
Unique Application Number |
Applicant Name |
|
1 |
68 |
3960077 |
LIGHTHOUSE DISPENSING COMPANY, LLC |
BLS Region #17 (South Illinois nonmetropolitan) 1
Conditional License available
|
Order Drawn |
Unique Lottery Number |
Unique Application Number |
Applicant Name |
|
1 |
85 |
3959530 |
V3 ILLINOIS VENDING, LLC |
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