diff --git a/changelog.d/2489.change.rst b/changelog.d/2489.change.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..40eddbe7349
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/2489.change.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+``pkg_resources`` behavior for zipimport now matches the regular behavior, and finds
+``.egg-info`` (previoulsy would only find ``.dist-info``) -- by :user:`thatch`
diff --git a/pkg_resources/__init__.py b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
index 737f4d5fad1..ba90c8c4abf 100644
--- a/pkg_resources/__init__.py
+++ b/pkg_resources/__init__.py
@@ -1978,12 +1978,13 @@ def find_eggs_in_zip(importer, path_item, only=False):
         # don't yield nested distros
         return
     for subitem in metadata.resource_listdir(''):
+        lower = subitem.lower()
         if _is_egg_path(subitem):
             subpath = os.path.join(path_item, subitem)
             dists = find_eggs_in_zip(zipimport.zipimporter(subpath), subpath)
             for dist in dists:
                 yield dist
-        elif subitem.lower().endswith('.dist-info'):
+        elif any(map(lower.endswith, ('.dist-info', '.egg-info'))):
             subpath = os.path.join(path_item, subitem)
             submeta = EggMetadata(zipimport.zipimporter(subpath))
             submeta.egg_info = subpath