Illinois has 277 licensed cannabis dispensaries as of November 2026, operating across 163 cities. The count comes straight from the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation license database and refreshes weekly.
By Program
Illinois adult-use dispensary licenses are issued by the IDFPR. The state caps the number of operating dispensaries and publishes the official list as a public PDF, which we parse weekly.
Compared
Illinois has the 8th-most licensed dispensaries of the 10 states we track, behind California with 1,822.
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Methodology
The figure is sourced from the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IL IDFPR) public license database. We re-crawl it weekly, deduplicate licensees, and exclude closed or revoked licenses — so the number reflects dispensaries actually operating, not licenses ever issued. Free to cite with attribution to Holden Leads.
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Illinois has 277 licensed cannabis dispensaries as of November 2026, spread across 163 cities. The count is verified against the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IL IDFPR) license database and refreshed weekly.
Of the Illinois dispensaries with a known program type, 207 are adult-use, 0 are medical, and 70 serve both programs.
Chicago leads Illinois with 39 licensed dispensaries, followed by Springfield with 7.
The count comes directly from the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation (IL IDFPR) public license database. We re-crawl it weekly, deduplicate licensees, and drop closed or revoked licenses, so the figure reflects dispensaries actually operating — not just licenses ever issued.
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