Business Licenses

City of Chicago / Business Affairs & Consumer Protection
Business licenses issued by the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection in the City of Chicago from 2002 to the present. Contains 1.19M rows and 37 columns including license details, business information, location data (ward, precinct, community area, police district), application type, and license status.
Data Format CSV, API (Socrata)
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Update Frequency Daily
Last Updated April 22, 2026
Geospatial Bounds -87.934,41.6445,-87.5248,42.0227
Portal Type socrata
Success False
Quality Score
100%
Usable
Yes
Total Rows
1,102,223
Valid Geometries
1,102,223 / 1,102,223

Schema Compliance

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WGS84 Yes
Required Columns Yes

Spatial Bounds

SW: (-87.934, 41.6445)
NE: (-87.5248, 42.0227)

Column Completeness

Column Completeness
id 100.0%
names 100.0%
categories 100.0%
operating_status 100.0%
addresses 100.0%
phones 100.0%
websites 100.0%
socials 100.0%
emails 100.0%
sources 100.0%
source_properties 100.0%

Top Categories

business (1,102,223)

Issues