CHICAGO (AP) –Â Former Illinois. Gov. Pat Quinn received recommendations on which businesses should receive lucrative medical marijuana licenses but he did not act on them before leaving office this month, newly released documents show.
Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration released the material to The Associated Press and other news organizations Sunday in response to Freedom of Information Act requests.
The Quinn administration had said it would issue the licenses by the end of 2014, but the Chicago Democrat did not act before the Republican from Winnetka succeeded him, instead saying that agencies in charge of evaluating applications still had more work to do.
