Illinois
After nearly three years of legal marijuana in Illinois, McHenry County is home to only one dispensary
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Whereas marijuana might be a rising enterprise quickly in McHenry County as extra licenses are granted, state rules are inflicting points for a lot of.
Pending lawsuits, court-ordered stays and associated delays in new license approval have created a backlog each throughout the state and within the county.
“It’s tough to get new applications up and operating, and up and operating effectively,” stated McHenry County Board member Pamela Althoff, R-McHenry, who can be government director of the Hashish Enterprise Affiliation of Illinois.
SOI LLC was one enterprise that sued the state after its utility’s “good rating” was denied a license, stated Joseph Ori, one of many agency’s house owners and basic counsel.
They didn’t have a veteran on their utility, which the state added to the popular checklist necessities late within the course of, Ori stated. Regardless of this, the group anticipates receiving a craft develop license quickly.
Lack of a license is probably not the one cause dispensaries aren’t coming to fruition in McHenry County.
Town of McHenry has accepted two marijuana companies since 2020. Neither applicant adopted up with building permits or acquired a state license, Director of Group Growth Ross Polerecky stated.
He stated he’s uncertain why these companies by no means moved ahead, however wonders if inhabitants density is a part of the explanation.
“All of them need to be within the metropolis or populated areas first,” he stated. “And McHenry, or McHenry County, could not match that demographic.”
McHenry adopted Lake within the Hills’ result in make the method simpler, Polerecky stated.
Particularly, McHenry made marijuana companies a permitted use in its business freeway district, so no particular use allow can be wanted, he stated.
“They’ll open like every other retail enterprise. If they will discover a location, they will go in with out going via zoning. It’s a fast-tracked course of,” Polerecky stated.
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Crystal Lake has additionally seen one in all its two requests not materialize, Group Growth Director Katie Cowlin stated.
Together with the state’s licensing delays, challenges to that system are additionally slowing issues down.
Lawsuits objecting to how the state handed out licenses for marijuana craft develop, infusion and dispensaries introduced short-term restraining orders from state judges.
These restraining orders prevented Illinois from approving any extra licenses whereas they have been determined legally.
Even for somebody working with the marijuana companies inside the trade, holding observe of the place the lawsuits and licensing processes stand could be a problem, Althoff stated.
A part of the issue, she stated, is that there’s not a central repository for the entire info license candidates want.
A complete of 13 state businesses have a component in regulating the leisure marijuana enterprise in Illinois, she stated. She believes this makes it exhausting to find out the place issues are within the course of, as too many events have a chunk of the duty.
“There may be not a stand-alone fee, such as you do in Illinois for liquor and gaming,” stated Althoff.
Ori, from the Woodstock infusion location at the moment in design overview, stated they noticed the identical downside. At one level, a bunch of marijuana license hopefuls he meets with needed to ask for adjustments in a portion of the appliance course of.
They couldn’t decide which regulatory company they need to ahead the letter to, Ori stated.
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Nonetheless, some progress is being made.
In late Could, a Cook dinner County choose lifted his keep that had stopped the state from approving any new hashish dispensary licenses.
The Illinois Division of Monetary and Skilled Regulation, which approves dispensaries by way of a lottery system, started approving new dispensary licenses as of mid-June.
One other choose had put a keep on craft grower functions, after the state’s lottery for these licenses was, in response to the go well with, improperly scored. That keep was lifted in March.
With the judicial course of clearing up, 185 dispensary licenses at the moment are permitted to go ahead, Althoff stated. One other 48 craft develop licenses have been accepted after the keep was lifted, she stated.
It could have been too late for some proposed areas.
“A few of them additionally have to acquire approval as a result of the possession of that license has modified and there are necessities for that,” she stated.
The lone dispensary in McHenry County, RISE, welcomes the brand new competitors as soon as it opens, Inexperienced Thumb Industries Regional Director Taurin Lyons stated. That location opened in March 2021.
“There’s sufficient folks the place there’s positively going to be sufficient going round for everybody,” he stated. “We welcome anyone who’s capable of assist folks. Hashish is a freedom; so the extra the merrier.”
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RISE has seen rising success over time, which helps add to the village’s coffers, Lake within the Hills Finance Director Peter Stefan stated.
The village will get each gross sales tax and a 2% marijuana tax from gross sales on the dispensary, Stefan stated.
“As with all new enterprise it took three or 4 months for them to get to their regular gross sales degree, and since then it’s been secure, inching up barely,” Stefan stated.
Nonetheless, going via the state for licensing doesn’t appear as straightforward because it might be, he stated. However now that licenses are beginning to exit, Lyons believes extra dispensaries and marijuana-based companies will begin opening.
Ori stated the delays have given the larger corporations that opened shortly a leg up.
“For the final three-plus years, the unique operators have had a feasting day,” he stated. “They’ve solely gotten stronger, extra positioned to make it tougher for us smaller guys to get into the market.”
Even with many companies not gaining traction, a pair might be opening within the close to future. Ori’s all-in-one enterprise might be opening in Woodstock quickly, whereas one marijuana-based enterprise in Crystal Lake has began website work.
Spring Grove resident Monika Jones, who was at Rise in Lake within the Hills, stated she’s wanting ahead to it. Since she has some medical points, authorized marijuana helps her quite a bit.
“I used to stay in California, so I assumed it might be like that in the future,” she stated. “Getting it delivered to the home sounds good.”
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Illinois
Doyle, Wires spark Illinois' full-court attack in third straight Muddy River Showcase victory – Muddy River Sports
QUINCY — Dion Doyle decided this was the perfect opportunity to run it back.
The Macomb basketball standout was part of a team that included Quincy High School’s Ralph Wires that won back-to-back Gus Macker 3-on-3 championships when the event was a Memorial Day weekend staple in downtown Quincy.
Saturday, the duo reunited in the third annual Muddy River Showcase, guiding the Illinois all-stars to a 92-70 victory over their Missouri counterparts at John Wood Community College’s Student Activity Center. It was Illinois’ third consecutive victory in the series.
“This was our last-ever high school game,” Doyle said. “It felt good to get out and go, but it was kind of bittersweet since this is the end.”
To finish the way Doyle and his 3-on-3 counterpart did made it memorable.
“We’ve been playing together for seven or eight years,” Wires said of his relationship with Doyle. “Reuniting with him was awesome. I enjoyed playing with all of these guys and battling with them. This was a great group of guys.”
It took some toughness and tenacity to fend off the Show Me State.
Missouri led 32-26 with less than four minutes remaining in the second quarter by capitalizing on Illinois’ woeful start offensively. The Land of Lincolners went 6 of 21 from the field and 0 of 5 from 3-point range in the first quarter.
“We were shooting bad shots,” Wires said. “We certainly weren’t shooting our best. We were missing bunnies and dunks, too. It just wasn’t going our way.”
The Show Me State’s ability to keep Illinois from scoring in transition built confidence.
“I didn’t think they expected us to play as good as we did,” Highland’s Brady Campen said.
Ultimately, the ability to create easy offense with defensive pressure changed the game. Illinois closed the first half on a 16-2 run, scoring eight points off turnovers.
“They’re a great team, but we figured they couldn’t run with us once we got going,” Doyle said. “Once we get going up and down the floor, it’s kind of hard to stop us. We were pushing each other, and this was a great group of guys.”
Sharing the basketball influenced that attack.
The Illinois squad forced 22 turnovers, which led to a 27-7 advantage in points off turnovers, but it also dished out 16 assists, which led to shooting 46 percent from the field in the second half. Quincy High School’s Camden Brown and Tyler Sprick and Pittsfield’s Brennan Tomhave had a team-high three assists apiece.
“At the beginning, we were settling for the first shot too much,” said Zack Evans, the Winchester West Central all-state guard who has signed with John Wood Community College. “We weren’t trusting each other. Once we started trusting each other, knowing we can all score the ball at a high level, we started to calm down and everything went smoothly from there.”
Doyle scored 24 points, grabbed nine rebounds and had three steals in earning Illinois MVP honors, while Brown had 14 points and seven rebounds, Evans finished with 13 points and eight rebounds, and Wires collected 11 points, five steals and two assists.
“Our whole lineup was deep,” Evans said. “It was a super-athletic group, and it was a blast to play with them.”
Illinois’ depth proved key in the second half. Missouri shot 50 percent from the field over the final 20 minutes, but attempted just 30 shots because of lost possessions due to Illinois’ defense.
“It was great to be around great players,” Doyle said.
Campen led Missouri with 11 points and 11 rebounds to grab MVP honors, while Van-Far’s Nikos Connoway and South Shelby’s Chance Rainey scored 13 points apiece. Palmyra’s Carson Hicks had 11 points, while Palmyra teammate Bear Bock finished with six points and 10 rebounds.
“Oh, beyond proud of this effort,” Campen said. “Just being able to play and get out here with these guys was a blast.”
It’s a memory none of them will forget.
“We knew getting to play with this many athletic players was going to be a blast,” Evans said. “Coming out on top feels great.”
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WRSP/WCCU) — With millions of cicadas emerging this summer across the state of Illinois and the nation, many are curious to learn more about these critters. Some are even curious enough to eat them.
A pizza topping or tasty treat isn’t what comes to mind for most when it comes to cicadas, but for one group of University of Illinois educators, that is exactly what they thought of.
U of I extension horticulture educators Ken Johnson and Chris Enroth hosted a cicada-themed lunch late last month for their podcast Good Growing. They wanted to highlight every angle of cicadas, from what they do to how they taste.
We blanched some so basically you boil them for a minute or two, and that’s gonna clean them off if there’s any microbes in or around them, it’s gonna kill, basically gonna cook them,” said Johnson. “Eat them blanched, they’re gonna kinda taste like asparagus, and then you roast them and you kinda get the real nutty aroma, kinda nutty flavor to them.”
Johnson said for the lunch, they used cicadas that were freshly hatched in order to avoid wings and legs. He said if you do use older cicadas to clip off their wings and legs before consuming.
But the answer most want to know is did the cicada dishes taste good? Johnson and Enroth say yes, and recommend everyone try something new.
The periodical pesto pizza, the cicada tempura, and then finally it’s the cicada sundae,” said Enroth when describing the dishes they had at the lunch. “I wasn’t really kicking and screaming but I was hesitant to eat that first cicada. I will say it’s a fun experience, do take that opportunity, try something new.
For those who are allergic to shellfish, it is recommended that you do not try cicadas as they are in the same family as shellfish and may cause an allergic reaction.
Johnson and Enroth also advise against harvesting cicadas from areas that have a lot of heavy metals or pesticides in the soil as cicadas can absorb some of it during their many years underground.
CHICAGO (WTVO) — A boy, 13, was fatally shot in the head Friday evening on the West Side of Chicago.
The 13-year-old was standing in the area of South Independence Boulevard and West 13th Street when the incident occurred at about 8:30 p.m., according to WLS.
He was pronounced dead after he was taken to a hospital in critical condition, according to authorities.
The male shooter got away, officials said.
Chicago Police are still investigating and there is no further information about the incident
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