The village board gave preliminary support when the plan was informally proposed at a board meeting in May. But once residents got wind of the idea, they mounted an email and phone campaign against it.
Because it is the first year since marijuana legalization without COVID-19 restrictions, upcoming April 20 events will mark the biggest cannabis celebrations yet in Illinois.
In its heyday, Kmart operated more than 2,300 stores across the country. On Saturday, there will be just three remaining. Many of the former Kmart sites in the North, West and Northwest suburbs have been redeveloped as other retailers, as a police station and even as a mass vaccination site. But several others await new uses.