How do I look up a building permit in Illinois?

Building permits in Illinois are public records filed with each city or county building department. PermitGrab tracks 8 Illinois cities and republishes the records — pick your city below to browse permits by address, contractor, type and value, free.

Are building permits public record in Illinois?

Yes. Building permits are public records in Illinois. Cities publish them through open-data portals and permit systems; PermitGrab aggregates available official feeds and shows each market's source date.

How many building permits were filed in Illinois recently?

Across the 8 Illinois cities PermitGrab tracks, 2,155 permits were filed in the last 30 days, out of 32,564 on record.

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Illinois Building Permit Lookup — Free

Building permits are public record. PermitGrab tracks 8 Illinois cities with live data pulled from official city permit systems — browse by address, contractor, permit type and value. No signup needed to look.

32,564

Permits on record

2,155

Filed last 30 days

Cities covered

City	Last 30 days	On record	Newest permit	Status
Chicago, IL	1,717	19,850	2026-09-21	this week
Evanston, IL	422	2,116	2026-09-22	fresh — under 24h
Stone Park, IL	4	440	2026-08-31	this month
Calumet City, IL	4	2,175	2026-07-29	last 90 days
Countryside, IL	3	3,306	2026-07-31	last 90 days
Forestview, IL	3	239	2026-07-31	last 90 days
Blue Island, IL	1	1,253	2026-08-10	last 90 days
Worth, IL	1	3,185	2026-08-17	last 90 days

How to look up a building permit in Illinois

Pick the city where the property sits — permits are filed with the local building department, not the state. Use the table above for any of the 8 Illinois cities we cover.
Search by address or contractor. Each city page lists recent permits with the address, permit type, declared value, status and (where the city publishes it) the contractor of record.
Open a record to review the details that its public source provides. Available fields can include a project description, owner or applicant information, contractor details, and related permit history.

PermitGrab refreshes Illinois permit data as official municipal sources publish it; the table shows the newest source date we hold for each city. If your city isn't listed, the building department may not publish a public data feed yet.

Contractors: turn these permits into leads.

Access current permit records in covered Illinois markets, plus contractor, owner, and project fields where the public source provides them. Source dates and available fields vary by city.

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