Building Permits | City of Chicago

Building PermitsPermits issued by the Department of Buildings in the City of Chicago from 2006 to the present. The dataset for each year contains more than 65,000 records/rows of data and cannot be viewed in full in Microsoft Excel. Therefore, when downloading the file, select CSV from the Export menu. Open the file in an ASCII text editor, such as Wordpad, to view and search. Data fields requiring description are detailed below. PERMIT TYPE: "New Construction and Renovation" includes new projects or rehabilitations of existing buildings; "Other Construction" includes items that require plans such as cell towers and cranes; "Easy Permit" includes minor repairs that require no plans; "Wrecking/Demolition" includes private demolition of buildings and other structures; "Electrical Wiring" includes major and minor electrical work both permanent and temporary; "Sign Permit" includes signs, canopies and awnings both on private property and over the public way; "Porch Permit" includes new porch construction and renovation (defunct permit type porches are now issued under "New Construction and Renovation" directly); "Reinstate Permit" includes original permit reinstatements; "Extension Permits" includes extension of original permit when construction has not started within six months of original permit issuance. WORK DESCRIPTION: The description of work being done on the issued permit, which is printed on the permit. PIN1 – PIN10: A maximum of ten assessor parcel index numbers belonging to the permitted property. PINs are provided by the customer seeking the permit since mid-2008 where required by the Cook County Assessor’s Office. CONTRACTOR INFORMATION: The contractor type, name, and contact information. Data includes up to 15 different contractors per permit if applicable. Data Owner: Buildings. Time Period: January 1, 2006 to present. Frequency: Data is updated daily. Related Applications: Building Data Warehouse (https://webapps.cityofchicago.org/buildingviolations/violations/searchaddresspage.html).Visit the full page to view this data.

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ID: id
PERMIT#: permit_
PERMIT_TYPE: _permit_type
ISSUE_DATE: _issue_date
ESTIMATED_COST: _estimated_cost
AMOUNT_WAIVED: _amount_waived
AMOUNT_PAID: _amount_paid
TOTAL_FEE: _total_permit_fee
STREET_NUMBER: street_number
STREET DIRECTION: street_direction
STREET_NAME: street_name
SUFFIX: _suffix
WORK_DESCRIPTION: work_description
PIN1: _pin1
PIN2: _pin2
PIN3: _pin3
PIN4: _pin4
PIN5: _pin5
PIN6: _pin6
PIN7: _pin7
PIN8: _pin8
PIN9: _pin9
PIN10: _pin10
CONTRACTOR_1_TYPE: contractor_1_type
CONTRACTOR_1_NAME: contractor_1_name
CONTRACTOR_1_ADDRESS: contractor_1_address
CONTRACTOR_1_CITY: contractor_1_city
CONTRACTOR_1_STATE: contractor_1_state
CONTRACTOR_1_ZIPCODE: contractor_1_zipcode
CONTRACTOR_1_PHONE: contractor_1_phone
CONTRACTOR_2_TYPE: contractor_2_type
CONTRACTOR_2_NAME: contractor_2_name
CONTRACTOR_2_ADDRESS: contractor_2_address
CONTRACTOR_2_CITY: contractor_2_city
CONTRACTOR_2_STATE: contractor_2_state
CONTRACTOR_2_ZIPCODE: contractor_2_zipcode
CONTRACTOR_2_PHONE: contractor_2_phone
CONTRACTOR_3_TYPE: contractor_3_type
CONTRACTOR_3_NAME: contractor_3_name
CONTRACTOR_3_ADDRESS: contractor_3_address
CONTRACTOR_3_CITY: contractor_3_city
CONTRACTOR_3_STATE: contractor_3_state
CONTRACTOR_3_ZIPCODE: contractor_3_zipcode
CONTRACTOR_3_PHONE: contractor_3_phone
CONTRACTOR_4_TYPE: contractor_4_type
CONTRACTOR_4_NAME: contractor_4_name
CONTRACTOR_4_ADDRESS: contractor_4_address
CONTRACTOR_4_CITY: contractor_4_city
CONTRACTOR_4_STATE: contractor_4_state
CONTRACTOR_4_ZIPCODE: contractor_4_zipcode
CONTRACTOR_4_PHONE: contractor_4_phone
CONTRACTOR_5_TYPE: contractor_5_type
CONTRACTOR_5_NAME: contractor_5_name
CONTRACTOR_5_ADDRESS: contractor_5_address
CONTRACTOR_5_CITY: contractor_5_city
CONTRACTOR_5_STATE: contractor_5_state
CONTRACTOR_5_ZIPCODE: contractor_5_zipcode
CONTRACTOR_5_PHONE: contractor_5_phone
CONTRACTOR_6_TYPE: contractor_6_type
CONTRACTOR_6_NAME: contractor_6_name
CONTRACTOR_6_ADDRESS: contractor_6_address
CONTRACTOR_6_CITY: contractor_6_city
CONTRACTOR_6_STATE: contractor_6_state
CONTRACTOR_6_ZIPCODE: contractor_6_zipcode
CONTRACTOR_6_PHONE: contractor_6_phone
CONTRACTOR_7_TYPE: contractor_7_type
CONTRACTOR_7_NAME: contractor_7_name
CONTRACTOR_7_ADDRESS: contractor_7_address
CONTRACTOR_7_CITY: contractor_7_city
CONTRACTOR_7_STATE: contractor_7_state
CONTRACTOR_7_ZIPCODE: contractor_7_zipcode
CONTRACTOR_7_PHONE: contractor_7_phone
CONTRACTOR_8_TYPE: contractor_8_type
CONTRACTOR_8_NAME: contractor_8_name
CONTRACTOR_8_ADDRESS: contractor_8_address
CONTRACTOR_8_CITY: contractor_8_city
CONTRACTOR_8_STATE: contractor_8_state
CONTRACTOR_8_ZIPCODE: contractor_8_zipcode
CONTRACTOR_8_PHONE: contractor_8_phone
CONTRACTOR_9_TYPE: contractor_9_type
CONTRACTOR_9_NAME: contractor_9_name
CONTRACTOR_9_ADDRESS: contractor_9_address
CONTRACTOR_9_CITY: contractor_9_city
CONTRACTOR_9_STATE: contractor_9_state
CONTRACTOR_9_ZIPCODE: contractor_9_zipcode
CONTRACTOR_9_PHONE: contractor_9_phone
CONTRACTOR_10_TYPE: contractor_10_type
CONTRACTOR_10_NAME: contractor_10_name
CONTRACTOR_10_ADDRESS: contractor_10_address
CONTRACTOR_10_CITY: contractor_10_city
CONTRACTOR_10_STATE: contractor_10_state
CONTRACTOR_10_ZIPCODE: contractor_10_zipcode
CONTRACTOR_10_PHONE: contractor_10_phone
CONTRACTOR_11_TYPE: contractor_11_type
CONTRACTOR_11_NAME: contractor_11_name
CONTRACTOR_11_ADDRESS: contractor_11_address
CONTRACTOR_11_CITY: contractor_11_city
CONTRACTOR_11_STATE: contractor_11_state
CONTRACTOR_11_ZIPCODE: contractor_11_zipcode
CONTRACTOR_11_PHONE: contractor_11_phone
CONTRACTOR_12_TYPE: contractor_12_type
CONTRACTOR_12_NAME: contractor_12_name
CONTRACTOR_12_ADDRESS: contractor_12_address
CONTRACTOR_12_CITY: contractor_12_city
CONTRACTOR_12_STATE: contractor_12_state
CONTRACTOR_12_ZIPCODE: contractor_12_zipcode
CONTRACTOR_12_PHONE: contractor_12_phone
CONTRACTOR_13_TYPE: contractor_13_type
CONTRACTOR_13_NAME: contractor_13_name
CONTRACTOR_13_ADDRESS: contractor_13_address
CONTRACTOR_13_CITY: contractor_13_city
CONTRACTOR_13_STATE: contractor_13_state
CONTRACTOR_13_ZIPCODE: contractor_13_zipcode
CONTRACTOR_13_PHONE: contractor_13_phone
CONTRACTOR_14_TYPE: contractor_14_type
CONTRACTOR_14_NAME: contractor_14_name
CONTRACTOR_14_ADDRESS: contractor_14_address
CONTRACTOR_14_CITY: contractor_14_city
CONTRACTOR_14_STATE: contractor_14_state
CONTRACTOR_14_ZIPCODE: contractor_14_zipcode
CONTRACTOR_14_PHONE: contractor_14_phone
CONTRACTOR_15_TYPE: contractor_15_type
CONTRACTOR_15_NAME: contractor_15_name
CONTRACTOR_15_ADDRESS: contractor_15_address
CONTRACTOR_15_CITY: contractor_15_city
CONTRACTOR_15_STATE: contractor_15_state
CONTRACTOR_15_ZIPCODE: contractor_15_zipcode
CONTRACTOR_15_PHONE: contractor_15_phone
LATITUDE: latitude
LONGITUDE: longitude
LOCATION: location

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