![]() “It doesn’t matter who they are, per se, just that we end up with an industry that looks different than it does today,” added Hutchinson, though she couldn’t provide demographic information for the applicants. “Our goal is to give this opportunity to as many people as possible,” she said, noting that 97% of the finalists qualified as social equity applicants, those given a leg-up in the process in an effort to diversify the white-dominated pot industry. The second drawing will include 589 contestants from the original applicant group, Hutchinson said, but the final number of participants in the third lottery hasn’t been set. The Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation is expected to publicly announce those finalists at some point Wednesday. Pritzker’s chief adviser on cannabis, told reporters Wednesday that 626 of the more than 900 applicant groups qualified for the first drawing, which will determine the winners of 55 licenses. The first of three lotteries for 185 total dispensary licenses is set for Thursday, with the others scheduled next month. After a year of turmoil, Illinois is finally on the verge of dishing out precious new pot shop permits - and hundreds of groups are now in the running. ![]()
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