Every building permit issued in Chicago in the last seven days, rebuilt every Monday from the Chicago Department of Buildings open-data feed: how many, what kind, where, which contractors pulled the most, and the largest projects by declared value.
See this week's Chicago permitsPublic listing only. The paid weekly owner report (permits joined to the owner's mailing address, with an absentee-owner flag) is sold for Lee County, Florida, not for Chicago. See Lee County this week · sample owner report.
The Chicago Department of Buildings publishes every building permit through the city's open-data portal, data.cityofchicago.org (dataset ydr8-5enu), and updates it daily. PermitRadar reads that feed and rebuilds a weekly summary page every Monday; the map on the home page shows the newest rows with a marker per permit. Every field is the city's own: address, permit type, work description, reported cost, ward and the contractor of record. Nothing is estimated.
Areas that appear in the feed include:
What the page does not do: it does not join permits to property owners, it does not send alerts, and it is not a live stream. It is a weekly public record summary, rebuilt on Mondays.
Chicago publishes its permit data daily through data.cityofchicago.org. PermitRadar's weekly page for Chicago is rebuilt every Monday and covers the seven days before the rebuild: counts by type and ward, the contractors pulling the most permits where the feed names them, and the largest permits by declared value.
Yes. Chicago building permits are public records published by the Chicago Department of Buildings through the city's open-data portal (data.cityofchicago.org, dataset ydr8-5enu). PermitRadar republishes the counts and the largest permits as published; nothing is estimated.
No. PermitRadar's weekly owner report, which joins each permit to the owner's name and mailing address, is sold for Lee County, Florida only. For Chicago PermitRadar keeps a free public permit page and a map on the home page, and no owner join is offered.
Rebuilt every Monday from data.cityofchicago.org. No signup to read.
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