Dibsline Permits: Chicago, IL

New building permits in Chicago, every day

Every building permit Chicago issues, as the city publishes it, in your AI assistant: tagged by trade, with the job value, ZIP code and contractor where the city gives them, and a link to the city's own record. Ask in plain English; filter by trade, job value, ZIP code and contractor.

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What you get

  • Permits issued in Chicago from 10 Sep 2026 on, collected every day at 20:15 UTC.
  • Tagged by trade: pool, roof, solar, remodel, new home, addition, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, demolition, fence and sign.
  • One line per job when you ask for leads or jobs: the permits at one address, counted once.
  • On a paid plan, a saved search emails you what is new once a day.
  • Chicago publishes no ZIP code: Dibsline finds it from the permit's location.
  • Chicago does not say whether a permit is residential or commercial.

Live counts for Chicago

permits in the last 7 days
484
permits in the last 30 days
2,543

By trade

TradeLast 7 daysLast 30 days
Other196882
Remodel72516
Electrical71415
Plumbing41269
Roof30160
Solar22145
Sign34132
Fence18105
HVAC1161
Demolition1255
New home334
Addition520
Pool14

A permit tagged with two trades counts in both.

Busiest ZIP codes, last 30 days

ZIP codePermits
60620102
6060692
6061191
6061487
6065781

Counted by Dibsline at 2 Nov 2026, 21:45 UTC, for 27 Oct to 2 Nov 2026 (7 days) and 4 Oct to 2 Nov 2026 (30 days). Counted again every 6 hours. Chicago's permits are nearly all in to 31 Oct; 1 Nov onwards are still arriving.

Two things to ask

Roof permits in Chicago this week

Which Chicago ZIP codes had the most remodel permits in the last 30 days?

Every answer gives the total, the newest permits first, the city's notice and the link to each permit's record. 7 worked examples with real counts

The source, its licence and its notice

Chicago

The dataset's own page. Dibsline holds its permits issued from 10 Sep 2026.

Licence: not named by the source; its notice below is required with the data.

Nearly all of a day's permits are in 2 days after it (measured 29 Oct 2026).

Notice, shown with every result: This site provides applications using data that has been modified for use from its original source, www.cityofchicago.org, the official website of the City of Chicago. The City of Chicago makes no claims as to the content, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of any of the data provided at this site. The data provided at this site is subject to change at any time. It is understood that the data provided at this site is being used at one's own risk.

How fresh it is. Chicago publishes a permit a day or more after it is issued, and some days fill in over several days. The live counts above say which days are still arriving, and so does every answer; the status page shows the newest collection and record.

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