A Wheeling cannabis dispensary has been given village permission to open the first recreational consumption lounge in Cook County. Patrons of the proposed area at Okay Cannabis, 781 N. Milwaukee ...

It will be open from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. daily and mark West Town Bakery's fifth location. The Wheeling store will be the first of three Okay Cannabis shops opening in the next six months.

Akemi Almeida, right, laughs as Lucas Ewing, left, smokes marijuana, during baked bingo night on April 9, 2024, in the consumption lounge at OKAY Cannabis Dispensary and West Town Bakery in Wheeling.

Under Okay Cannabis' proposal, lounge reservations would be required and limited to 90 minutes, with an additional 30-minute cool-down period during which consumption wouldn't be allowed, Fifty/50 ...

Ameya Pawar, left, and Charles Mayfield stand at OKAY Cannabis dispensary on Feb. 1, 2023, in Wheeling. The massive 12,000-square-foot space, on the site of a former Twin Peaks in Wheeling’s ...

The Fifty/50 Group opened Okay Cannabis, Illinois’ first cannabis consumption lounge, in Wheeling in February. The lounge neighbors an outpost of West Town Bakery serving sandwiches, coffee ...