Tazewell County, IL Cannabis Regulations: Dispensary Zoning (2026)

Chapter 159, CANNABIS BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENTS, sets out where each type of licensed cannabis operation may locate in the unincorporated county. ' A dispensary cannot open in either agricultural district (A-1 or A-2), the Rural Residential district, either residential district, or the C-1 Neighborhood Commercial district; it needs a special use permit even in the three commercial and industrial districts where it is allowed. 03 then layers on siting standards: dispensaries must meet the underlying district's road, side, and rear setbacks (division (A)(1)) and must sit at least 1,500 feet from the property line of any other pre-existing cannabis business establishment (division (A)(2)), a distance the code will waive only where a craft grower shares premises with a processing or dispensing operation under the same ownership arrangement.

Special-use applicants must submit a signed statement acknowledging that cannabis remains a Schedule I controlled substance under federal law and that county approval does not authorize violation of state or federal law (division (B)(1)), a security plan covering patron and employee conduct on the premises and in the parking area (division (B)(2)), and a site plan showing co-tenancy, square footage, security installations, and ingress/egress (division (B)(3)). A. 101-0027, and the code specifies that where the Act and the county's rules conflict, the more restrictive standard controls.