Chicago01
Cookies Chicago Dispensary
215 N Clinton St, Chicago
Open
Daily 9am–9pm
Carries
FlowerPre-rollsVapesEdiblesConcentratesAccessories
Brands on the shelf
Cookies
Illinois's 10 best dispensaries
We pulled every dispensary Google lists across Illinois, kept the 107 that are open and licensed, and ranked them on a rating weighted by how many people actually left one. Top of the list is Cookies Chicago Dispensary at 5.0 stars.
- Shops ranked
- 107
- Cities
- 42
- Top rating
- 5.0
- Checked
- Sep
The ranking
The ten best, in order
Star averages on their own reward shops nobody has been to. A 4.9 from 340 people is a weaker claim than a 4.8 from 7,000, so every rating here is pulled toward the Illinois average in proportion to how few reviews sit behind it.
Aurora02
Chicago03
Verilife Dispensary
60 W Superior St, Chicago
Open
Daily 8am–10pm
Carries
FlowerPre-rollsVapesEdiblesDrinksConcentratesTincturesTopicalsCBD
Brands on the shelf
RythmDogwalkersIncredibles
Chicago04
Milan05
Terrace Cannabis Dispensary - Milan
800 Tech Dr, Milan
Open
Mon–Wed 6:30am–12amThu–Sat 6:30am–2amSun 6am–9:45pm
Carries
By city
Pick a city
Every Illinois city we found licensed shops in, with how many are on the list.
Chicago 21Springfield 7Schaumburg 5Peoria 5Normal 4Naperville 4Carbondale 4Joliet 3Champaign 3East Peoria 3Rockford 3Metropolis 3Quincy 3Aurora 3Moline 3Waukegan 2Fox Lake 2Streamwood 2Milan 2Bloomington 2Danville 2Charleston 1Urbana 1Effingham 1Mundelein 1Westchester 1Niles 1Peoria Heights 1Park City 1Buffalo Grove 1Round Lake Beach 1Highland Park 1Mt Prospect 1Highwood 1Alton 1East Dubuque 1North Aurora 1Collinsville 1South Beloit 1Harrisburg 1Lombard 1Marion 1
Questions
How this list is built
Why is the order not just star rating?
Because a star average hides how many people stood behind it. Every shop's rating is shrunk toward the Illinois mean in proportion to its review count, so a shop needs both a high score and real volume to reach the top. The weighted figure is printed on every entry next to the raw one.
Where does the data come from?
Google Maps, pulled fresh and filtered to shops that are open, licensed and listed under a cannabis category. Anything permanently or temporarily closed is dropped, as is anything that turned up in the search but sits outside Illinois.
Why are there no prices or brand lists?
Because we have not read them yet. Menu data lives behind each shop's ordering platform and licence numbers live on the state register, and neither is published here until it has been pulled from the source rather than guessed.
How often does it change?
Quarterly. Ratings move, shops close, and a list that is not re-checked becomes a directory of places that used to be good.
Before you go
Worth reading first
Dosing, terpenes and what to actually ask at the counter.