Data / Building permits / Chicago, IL (street use)

Building permits in Chicago, IL (street use): 193,287

The full list. Building permits in Chicago, IL (street use): 193,287 rows for $2,012.87, November 10, 2024 to today. The list gains about 8,868 rows a month. The new rows come each week by email, $168.68 a month.

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Updated November 8, 2026. Source: City of Chicago open data: Transportation Department Permits.

City of Chicago published 193,287 building permits for Chicago, IL (street use) from November 10, 2024 to November 8, 2026, about 8,868 a month over the last three full months. Each row has the issued date, permit number, permit type, work, description, address, status and the link to the record on the official portal.

The request: Every new building permit in Chicago, IL (street use) each week, with the permit number, permit type, work, description and the source link.

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Rows, 24 months

193,287

A month (last 3)

8,868

Newest

November 8, 2026

Portal

data.cityofchicago.org

The newest 100 building permits

Newest first, as City of Chicago published them. The full list holds all 193,287 rows since November 10, 2024.

By month

Building permits by the month of their issued date; the current month is still open.

Fields

Our column names and the portal's own field names in the dataset "Transportation Department Permits" (data.cityofchicago.org, ID pubx-yq2d).

Where this comes from

• Transportation Department Permits on data.cityofchicago.org
• All building permits on SpecStream
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