Ashlee Rezin Garcia/Sun-Times Two Chicago-based firms that have emerged as major players in the country’s increasingly competitive cannabis industry are partnered together in a company that owns two Illinois dispensaries. Subsidiaries of Green Thumb Industries and Verano Holdings are the registered managers of ILDISP LLC, according to records kept by the Illinois secretary of state’s office. That shell company is listed as the sole manager of NH Medicinal Dispensaries LLC, which holds the licenses for GTI’s Rise dispensary in Effingham and Verano’s Zen Leaf pot shop in Charleston. The owners of both companies were some of the first to cash in when Illinois legalized medical marijuana in 2015. Since then, their respective businesses have blossomed into multibillion-dollar behemoths, with retail and cultivation operations spread across multiple states.