Chicago building permits
Chicago insights
Derived nightly from the silver dataset · last updated 2026-05-24 02:00 CTRecent commercial permits
Chicago on PermitCore: daily-refreshed, IBC-cohort-tagged, DQ-flagged.
Parcel-joined geometry across Chicago.
Every commercial permit joined to its lot polygon where source data permits. Join rate Parcel-joined ~88%. Unjoined rows are flagged with addr_unmatched, not silently dropped.
Daily refresh from the metro's open-data portals.
Refreshed every 24h from Chicago's public permit datasets. Competitors typically update on the 1st and 15th with multi-week processing lag. PermitCore ingests, cohort-classifies, and DQ-flags by 02:00 local.
Field-level DQ flags on every row.
12 data-quality flags per row. Cell-level transparency on valuation, roof area, IBC class, parcel join, dedup, date sanity. Filter or weight by flag in API queries.
Top Chicago contractors
Ranked by permit count, trailing 90 days · Each links to the contractor pageChicago by cohort
Refreshed hourly via /v1/jurisdictions/chicago/cohorts/distribution · Each links to the cohort pageGet the Chicago permit feed in your stack.
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