Ask Chicagoanything
Plain-English answers from the city’s own records.
What do you need to do?
Check out an address before you sign
Open building violations, the schools it's zoned for, street sweeping, crime on the block and who represents it — summed up at the top.
The data behind the answers
Buildings & Property
- Building permitsabout 841K rows
- Building violationsabout 2M rows
- Affordable housingabout 598 rows
- Vacant buildingsabout 5K rows
- Property salesabout 2.7M rows
- City Landabout 21K rows
- Hearing Violationsabout 824K rows
- Scofflawsabout 701 rows
- Foreclosed Rentalsabout 577 rows
- Short-Term Rentalsabout 3.7K rows
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