Chicago Department of Buildings
City of Chicago department that administers building-code inspections and construction permitting and publishes official permit and building-violation records through the Chicago Data Portal.
What Chicago Department of Buildings offers
2 sourcesOfficial City of Chicago open dataset, anonymous SODA API, and full-file download of Department of Buildings violations issued from January 1, 2006 to present. Records are updated daily and include the violation code, corresponding authority description and ordinance text, violation and status dates, inspection context, address, a property-group lot key, and coordinates. The City cautions that the records are historical and informational, may include liable and not-liable cases, do not necessarily reflect current building/property condition, and should not be used as the authoritative outstanding-enforcement record for real-estate transactions.
Official daily public dataset and SODA API of Chicago building permits issued from 2006 onward, including documented permit type and current status fields.
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