Building Permits Scraper · Chicago, IL

Chicago building permit data, straight from Chicago Data Portal

Every building permit Chicago publishes — pulled from the official Chicago Data Portal Socrata API, normalized to one clean schema, delivered as JSON, CSV, or Excel. Filter by trade, project value, and date. Chicago publishes up to 15 named contacts per permit — the actor scans them to pull out the general contractor and owner.

What Chicago publishes on each permit

• ✓ Permit number, type, status, date
• ✓ Street address + coordinates
• ✓ Work description
• ✓ Project valuation
• ✓ Contractor name
• — Contractor phone
• ✓ Owner name

Who uses Chicago permit leads

Roofing, solar, HVAC, electrical, and plumbing contractors prospecting active projects; remodelers and GCs tracking competitors; building-product suppliers; real-estate investors and analysts watching Chicago construction activity.

FAQ

Where does Chicago permit data come from?

Directly from Chicago Data Portal (Socrata), the official government open-data source. No HTML scraping, no anti-bot games — the data is published by the government for public reuse.

How do I get new Chicago permits every day?

Schedule the actor daily on Apify with only-new-results mode on. It remembers the newest permit it has seen and returns only newer ones — a self-updating lead feed to Google Sheets, webhook, or CRM.

Can I filter to my trade?

Yes — built-in filters for roofing, solar, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and remodel, plus minimum project value and custom keywords.

How much does it cost?

$0.03 per permit returned. No subscription, no minimum. A daily feed of 50 new permits costs $1.50/day.

Other covered cities

New York City, NY · Austin, TX · San Francisco, CA · Seattle, WA · Los Angeles, CA · New Orleans, LA · Maricopa County, AZ · Miami-Dade County, FL · Miami (city), FL · Philadelphia, PA · Mesa, AZ · Nashville, TN · Fort Worth, TX · San Antonio, TX