Illinois
Illinois set to more than double number of marijuana shops after getting court clearance
The variety of leisure marijuana outlets in Illinois is because of greater than double after the state Friday introduced its plans to concern 185 new dispensary licenses.
The motion comes after courts lifted bans on issuing the licenses whereas litigation continues.
Candidates who gained rights to licenses final 12 months should finalize compliance checks earlier than their conditional licenses may be issued.
Starting Thursday, the state plans to concern licenses in three waves. The primary wave, for the Naperville-Chicago-Elgin area, is to be issued by July 22. The following wave, for different areas with a number of licenses, is due by Aug. 5, with the third wave, for districts with one license, due by Aug. 19.
The tempo of licensing will likely be decided by how rapidly candidates’ compliance checks may be verified.
“Right now marks the start of the subsequent chapter of essentially the most equitable adult-use hashish program within the nation,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker stated. “This implies numerous extra alternatives for communities which have suffered from historic disinvestment to hitch this rising trade and guarantee its make-up displays the variety of our state.”
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All principal officers, or house owners, can have 60 days after notification to pay any taxes or different money owed to the state. As well as, the Illinois Division of Monetary and Skilled Regulation should confirm that no principal officers have a monetary curiosity in additional than 10 adult-use dispensary licenses.
After issuing the conditional licenses, the company will conduct background checks of principal officers.
Licensees can have 180 days to pick out a bodily storefront location and acquire the working license, or could request a 180-day extension if crucial.
The Illinois Division of Commerce and Financial Alternative provides low-interest loans to certified licensed firms by way of its Social Fairness Hashish Mortgage Program. The primary spherical of candidates is anticipated to finalize mortgage agreements with the company’s associate lending establishments within the coming weeks. The following part of the mortgage program is to be launched within the close to future, state officers stated.
The state additionally funds free licensing technical help by way of Oakton Neighborhood Faculty in Des Plaines, The Trep Faculty in Danville, the Girls’s Enterprise Growth Middle in Chicago, and the College of Illinois at Chicago Regulation Faculty.
The announcement comes a day after U.S. Decide Rebecca Pallmeyer declined to concern a short lived restraining order towards the brand new licenses in a lawsuit by two plaintiffs claiming the state’s residency necessities violate federal regulation. The decide stated the plaintiffs lacked standing to problem the beforehand allotted licenses, and that it was untimely to rule on the issuance of recent licenses, since state officers have proposed alternate options to state residency.
The decide freed the state to concern the 185 licenses beforehand allotted, however stated it should maintain off on extra dispensary licenses till she makes additional rulings.
Illinois
One killed in southern Illinois crash involving a garbage truck
By West Kentucky Star Staff
Jul. 07, 2024 | 04:58 PM
| WILLIAMSON COUNTY
A crash that involved a garbage truck shortly before noon Saturday in Hurst claimed one life.
The Williamson County Sheriff’s Office says their preliminary investigation shows that a garbage truck was traveling south on Illinois 149, when the driver lost control and collided with an SUV traveling in the northbound lane.
The driver of the SUV was pronounced dead at the scene.
Names of those involved have not yet been released, and the accident reconstruction investigation is continuing.
Illinois
Police nab Colorado man who fled La Salle traffic stop
A Colorado man who fled a La Salle traffic stop Saturday morning has been apprehended, the La Salle County Sheriff’s Office reported Sunday.
Details still are emerging, but Sheriff Adam Diss said Sunday he was alerted Austin Moon was apprehended on a bicycle near Interstate 80. Illinois state police troopers located him and placed him into custody.
Authorities have not released at this time what charges Moon may face. The charges are under review.
La Salle County sheriff’s deputies had issued an alert Saturday morning, asking for the public to watch for a white man who fled police during a stop on Interstate 80 near East Fifth Road (the Troy Grove blacktop). Nearby Rotary Park was closed to the public but was later reopened.
“The police department does not believe there is any threat to the public at this time,” the alert said.
Shaw Local News Network will update the story as more information becomes available.
Illinois
Illinois driver repeats as Gopher 50 champion
(Editor’s note: This story will be updated later tonight with more details.)
SPRING VALLEY — The Gopher 50 charity Late Model race has been held in southeastern Minnesota for the past 42 years.
Only three times prior to Saturday had a driver won the prestigious race — promoted since its inception by the Blooming Prairie Lions Club — in consecutive years.
Make that four times.
Oakwood, Ill., Late Model driver Bobby Pierce left the 3/8-mile high-banked dirt track on Saturday night the same way he left it a year ago — $50,000 richer.
Saturday, Pierce beat a star-studded and talented field to win the Gopher 50 A Main and join Steve Kosiski (1981-82), Billy Moyer (2000-01) and Darrell Lanigan (2013-15) as the only drivers to win the main feature at the Gopher in consecutive years.
Brandon Sheppard (the 2019 Gopher 50 champion), Tyler Erb, Ryan Gustin and Nick Hoffman rounded out the top five finishers.
Rochester native Dustin Sorensen finished 11th, after starting 17th.
• Jake O’Neil captured the 35-lap USRA Modifieds A Main on Saturday night.
Hayfield’s Brandon Davis finished as the runner-up, while Jake Timm (Winona), Joe Chisholm (Osage, Iowa) and Rodney Sanders (Happy, Texas) rounded out the top five in the 30-car field.
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