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Chicago renovation permits under $500,000: the smaller jobs

Smaller alteration permits are steady work for local trades and for lenders of home-improvement financing. These Chicago permits are the sample rows with a declared valuation under $500,000.

The data (6 real rows)

permitId	permitType	description	valuation	issueDate	status
101079541	RENOVATION/ALTERATION	SPR 2019 CBRC: RENOVATION OF EXITING RESTURANT PER PLANS. EXISTI...	10000	2026-10-09	ACTIVE
101082874	RENOVATION/ALTERATION	SELF CERT 2019 CBRC: INTERIOR ALTERATIONS TO EXISTING RETAIL SPA...	14000	2026-10-09	ACTIVE
101084506	RENOVATION/ALTERATION	SPR 2019 CBRC INTERIOR & EXTERIOR ALTERATION TO EXISTING 2 STORY...	200000	2026-10-09	ACTIVE
101085386	RENOVATION/ALTERATION	SPR 2019 CBC: WORK IN APARTMENT C4 - INSTALLATION OF NEW BEAMS A...	49685	2026-10-09	ACTIVE
101086138	RENOVATION/ALTERATION	SELF CERT 2019 CBC NEW SECOND FLOOR ADDITION TO AN EXISTING SING...	150000	2026-10-09	ACTIVE
101086365	RENOVATION/ALTERATION	SPR 2019 CBRC. REHAB OF EXISTING TWO-STORY MASONRY BUILDING CONT...	180000	2026-10-09	ACTIVE

Rows come from the free sample file for this actor, not a full run. Long values are shortened and personal contact fields are left out. Source: apify-actor-samples/building-permits-leads.

What this slice shows

permitType: RENOVATION/ALTERATION (6)
valuation: min 10,000, max 200,000, sum 603,685
status: ACTIVE (6)

How to get this yourself

Open the Building permits and violations from US city portals actor on Apify.
Select cities and a date window; get permit type, valuation, address and status.
Run it, then export the dataset as CSV, JSON or Excel from the results tab.