Building permit granted
permit.granted · Ready US city building permits, US
What it is
Public: from open or licensed sources, shared by everyone who subscribes.
- Example: Permit issued: $5.2M new building with 40 homes in Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL
- Typed payload, validated by its JSON Schema
- Collected today from US city building permits (US)
Each event names its exact source, a link to the record, the licence and the attribution in its provenance.
Example event, standard format
{
"specversion": "1.0",
"id": "evt_01M5EV0NM0GCJH11DJHA4H222K",
"type": "permit.granted",
"source": "/sources/examples/permit",
"time": "2026-10-21T09:00:00Z",
"observed_at": "2026-10-21T09:00:42Z",
"dataschema": "https://schemas.worldsignals.dev/permit.granted/1.json",
"datacontenttype": "application/json",
"visibility": "public",
"country": "US",
"region": "US-IL",
"place": {
"locality": "Chicago",
"precision": "locality"
},
"subject": {
"kind": "property",
"name": "New building, Humboldt Park",
"ws_id": "ent_01M5EV0NM0JGHW2JMTRXCE9TE8"
},
"entities": [
{
"kind": "company",
"role": "contractor",
"name": "Halsted Ridge Construction, Inc."
}
],
"title": "Permit issued: $5.2M new building with 40 homes in Humboldt Park, Chicago, IL",
"data": {
"time_precision": "day",
"permit_kind": "new_building",
"permit_label": "PERMIT - NEW CONSTRUCTION",
"permit_number": "100998877",
"valuation": {
"amount": "5228360.00",
"currency": "USD"
},
"units": 40,
"issued_on": "2026-10-22",
"authority": "City of Chicago Department of Buildings",
"neighbourhood": "Humboldt Park"
},
"provenance": {
"source_id": "example",
"source_name": "Example data",
"url": "https://example.com/worldsignals/permit.granted",
"licence": "Example only, not a real record",
"method": "example"
},
"confidence": 0.95,
"personal_data": false,
"revision": 1,
"tags": [
"example"
]
}Give your agents something to notice
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