A majority of the Chicago City Council wants Illinois legislators to pass rules on the sale of hemp products, calling into doubt Mayor Brandon Johnson’s efforts to regulate it at the city level.

However, critics in City Council said it's vital all hemp ... "Banning federal legal hemp products in Chicago will not be effective in limiting access, people will just buy them online online ...

Johnson and his City Council allies want to preserve a potential new tax revenue stream, while seeking to impose stiffer standards on the industry without banning intoxicating hemp products or ...

JB Pritzker, the City Council’s License Committee did ... own pending ordinance that would regulate and tax Chicago’s estimated 260 hemp stores. State Rep. Kam Buckner, the Chicago Democrat ...

The Chicago City Council on Wednesday voted to ban hemp sales in two Southwest Side wards. The intrigue: The vote was potentially unnecessary. Ald. Marty Quinn notes that the city in 2012 decided ...

The fight over the future of hemp in Chicago moved to the City Council on Thursday, weeks after a push by Mayor Brandon Johnson helped block state legislation to strictly license, tax and regulate ...

Chicago’s public health commissioner ... But they did urge the City Council to fill a regulatory void that has allowed hemp products to be marketed to youth and prone to contamination.

Cannabis companies are also monitoring potential legislation in the City Council. “Chicago residents should be concerned by efforts to legitimize intoxicating hemp products in exchange for a ...

State lawmakers, City Council members and industry groups ... La Shawn Ford, D-Chicago, said an outright ban on hemp amounts to “prohibition.” He’s proposing hemp licensing, testing and ...

Jason Ervin (28th). Some of those ideas floated in the City Council—in addition to the $60 million property tax increase—include possible regulations on Chicago's hemp industry to generate ...

A Chicago City Council committee delayed a planned vote Wednesday on a new, much-debated curfew ordinance for teens in the city. The Public Safety Committee spent several hours discussing a ...