Licences by county

The county is the finest location this site publishes. The source also carries the city — 21,835 of them — and the postcode; neither appears on any page here.

That restraint is deliberate. 1,200,141 of these licences belong to individuals, not businesses. A page listing a few dozen named people in a town of a few thousand puts a name next to something very close to an address; a county does not.

County	Active licences	Categories	Share
Cook	450,792	249	36.1%
Dupage	71,010	226	5.7%
Will	47,814	200	3.8%
Lake	43,657	211	3.5%
Kane	27,885	185	2.2%
Mchenry	17,556	175	1.4%
Sangamon	15,638	192	1.3%
Madison	15,481	165	1.2%
Winnebago	14,737	185	1.2%
Saint Clair	14,135	152	1.1%
Peoria	13,288	168	1.1%
Champaign	12,921	171	1.0%
Mclean	8,928	161	0.7%
Tazewell	8,585	142	0.7%
Adams	8,325	149	0.7%
Kendall	8,277	149	0.7%
Kankakee	6,366	142	0.5%
La Salle	5,597	123	0.4%
Indiana	5,466	109	0.4%
Macon	5,377	137	0.4%
Rock Island	5,303	148	0.4%
Dekalb	5,264	145	0.4%
Missouri	4,510	111	0.4%
Williamson	4,479	136	0.4%
Wisconsin	3,373	108	0.3%
Grundy	3,279	125	0.3%
Jackson	3,269	129	0.3%
Vermilion	3,016	112	0.2%
Iowa	2,728	96	0.2%
Ogle	2,655	110	0.2%
Effingham	2,540	106	0.2%
Whiteside	2,515	106	0.2%
Jefferson	2,428	135	0.2%
Knox	2,402	105	0.2%
Boone	2,399	115	0.2%
Clinton	2,355	111	0.2%
Marion	2,347	118	0.2%
Woodford	2,319	101	0.2%
Coles	2,191	108	0.2%
Henry	2,178	97	0.2%
Macoupin	2,177	89	0.2%
Franklin	2,119	109	0.2%
Fulton	1,994	103	0.2%
Lee	1,950	102	0.2%
Monroe	1,919	105	0.2%
Stephenson	1,890	102	0.2%
Montgomery	1,825	103	0.1%
Texas	1,805	87	0.1%
Christian	1,629	95	0.1%
California	1,522	84	0.1%
Livingston	1,518	95	0.1%
Morgan	1,513	102	0.1%
Florida	1,450	88	0.1%
Randolph	1,444	79	0.1%
Bureau	1,418	87	0.1%
Iroquois	1,296	77	0.1%
Saline	1,275	84	0.1%
Logan	1,272	91	0.1%
Shelby	1,196	94	0.1%
Jersey	1,136	86	0.1%
Scott	1,127	94	0.1%
Washington	1,125	98	0.1%
Michigan	1,069	80	0.1%
Douglas	1,066	98	0.1%
Fayette	1,023	89	0.1%
Perry	1,023	74	0.1%
Mcdonough	1,009	97	0.1%
Wayne	986	96	0.1%
Ohio	984	69	0.1%
Clark	983	106	0.1%
Union	959	93	0.1%
Piatt	959	77	0.1%
Johnson	929	83	0.1%
New York	927	75	0.1%
Crawford	918	80	0.1%
Jo Daviess	840	83	0.1%
Hamilton	796	82	0.1%
Richland	782	74	0.1%
Warren	739	78	0.1%
Menard	727	66	0.1%
Bond	687	74	0.1%
De Witt	662	61	0.1%
Pike	662	66	0.1%
Mercer	657	77	0.1%
Ford	657	70	0.1%
Edgar	649	71	0.1%
Arizona	647	60	0.1%
Mason	645	67	0.1%
Hancock	639	70	0.1%
Georgia	634	60	0.1%
Moultrie	620	68	0.0%
Minnesota	618	59	0.0%
Colorado	611	57	0.0%
Greene	605	70	0.0%
Marshall	605	67	0.0%
White	604	71	0.0%
Carroll	597	68	0.0%
Pennsylvania	596	58	0.0%
Cumberland	581	79	0.0%
Jasper	567	67	0.0%
Tennessee	558	60	0.0%
Kentucky	557	63	0.0%
Clay	557	80	0.0%
Virginia	533	54	0.0%
Cass	524	71	0.0%
Massac	486	63	0.0%
Wabash	480	70	0.0%
North Carolina	464	56	0.0%
Lawrence	461	56	0.0%
New Jersey	435	43	0.0%
Kansas	341	42	0.0%
Schuyler	325	55	0.0%
Putnam	320	59	0.0%
Massachusetts	300	40	0.0%
Stark	295	53	0.0%
Maryland	285	42	0.0%
Brown	266	54	0.0%
Pulaski	248	53	0.0%
Edwards	247	49	0.0%
Washington State	237	39	0.0%
South Carolina	224	39	0.0%
Calhoun	220	49	0.0%
Gallatin	220	41	0.0%
Oklahoma	211	41	0.0%
Henderson	203	46	0.0%
Nevada	199	39	0.0%
Nebraska	178	38	0.0%
Hardin	175	36	0.0%
Louisiana	172	30	0.0%
Pope	171	38	0.0%
Utah	168	32	0.0%
Alabama	157	36	0.0%
Delaware	148	38	0.0%
Arkansas	147	31	0.0%
Connecticut	145	34	0.0%
Alexander	136	35	0.0%
Oregon	125	30	0.0%
District Of Columbia	119	28	0.0%
Mississippi	105	33	0.0%
New Mexico	85	29	0.0%
Hawaii	74	20	0.0%
Idaho	71	21	0.0%
New Hampshire	51	18	0.0%
West Virginia	46	17	0.0%
Montana	44	19	0.0%
South Dakota	40	16	0.0%
North Dakota	38	18	0.0%
Maine	37	15	0.0%
Alaska	37	17	0.0%
Wyoming	28	15	0.0%
Vermont	23	9	0.0%
Rhode Island	17	11	0.0%