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Your free Cityscape Neighbor account includes
- View building permit and project descriptions
- Email updates about any one of the 37856 Places
- Email updates about any one of the 219,000+ Companies
- Email updates about any Address Snapshot
Pro accounts get so much more
Why get a Pro membership?
Save time researching buildings
Find contractors for a job
Download data for market analysis
Stay updated on building trends in any neighborhood
Get alerts for zoning changes, demolitions, and new businesses
Our members love Chicago Cityscape
"Chicago Cityscape represents a smart solution to the problem of uncoordinated public information. The City of Chicago data portal and other available public databases can in their complexity to use discourage users, Chicago Cityscape's database makes retrieving information easy for all levels of user sophistication. Utilizing the data and report pages can create new ideas to solve old problems. It assists in my community volunteer activities to identify potential solutions for legislation, property inventory management, volunteer resource optimization, development/demolition watch and city infrastructure transparency."
— Gladys Alcazar-Anselmo, East Village Association
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You can create a new Google Account with your work email address and avoid using a personal social network account.
Once you've created that account, come back to this page and click "Sign in with Google, G+, or Gmail".
Privacy and security
We use Facebook, Google, and LinkedIn, to verify your email and to avoid having to store your password. We only receive, from the one you choose, your name and email so that we can address you politely via email. Upon creating a new Cityscape account, you will be signed up for our email newsletter and a few introductory & informational emails (every email has unsubscribe instructions).
We are unable to post to your wall, feed, or timeline, and we cannot see your friends or shared content.
You are required to create a Cityscape account in order to access restricted services & information, and so that we can store the things you do on the site (create a list, draw a Personal Place, subscribe to a notification, or purchase an Address Snapshot, for example) to be retrieved and seen on a visit you make in the future.
Read our full privacy policy.