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Tutorials, guides, and videos to using Chicago Cityscape
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Find Chicago building permits with a unique scope
Sometimes it's useful to see what is being built in Chicago, or who's involved in certain kinds of projects. For example, you may be looking for the owners of digital billboards or where cellular antennas are installed. Building Permits Browser makes it easy to keyword search hundreds of thousands of projects in Chicago going back to 2006.
Research, Building permits
Last updated 12/28/2021
Download a map of historic resources in a Place
Find and download historic resources in a Chicago-based Place and explore that data on your own computer using Google Earth or a GIS application.
Research, Exporting data
Last updated 05/05/2021