Chicago Contract Awards & New Business Licenses API (B2B Leads)
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Chicago Contract Awards & New Business Licenses API (B2B Leads)
Chicago city contract awards (vendor, $ amount, department) + newly issued Chicago business licenses from official open data. B2B sales leads, government contracts data, CSV/JSON/API. Personal names withheld.
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Chicago government contract awards (vendor, award amount, department, procurement type, contract PDF) and newly issued Chicago business licenses (business name, license type, activity, address, ward, coordinates) from the official City of Chicago Data Portal, merged into one dated feed. Export as CSV, Excel or JSON, or call it as an API.
Who uses it: B2B sales teams and suppliers looking for new business leads in Chicago (new restaurants, retail, contractors opening), subcontractors chasing city contract winners, and analysts tracking public procurement spend.
Sample output
| date | recordType | title | businessName | amount | department / activity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | contract_award | DFSS-ECBG-CS-CEL: | CHINESE AMERICAN SERVICE LEAGUE, INC. | $47,207 | DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND SUPPORT SE |
| 2026-10-16 | contract_award | DFSS-ECBG-CS-CEL: | CUDDLE CARE, INC | $18,680 | DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND SUPPORT SE |
| 2026-10-16 | contract_award | DFSS-ECBG-CS-CEL: | A-KARRASEL GALEWOOD CHILDCARE, LLC | $46,077 | DEPARTMENT OF FAMILY AND SUPPORT SE |
| 2026-10-16 | business_license | Retail Food Establishment | FRUTT & TRANZNER LLC | Sale of Food Prepared Onsite With D | |
| 2026-10-16 | business_license | Retail Food Establishment | SDJ Hospitality LLC | Preparation of Food and Dining on P | |
| 2026-10-16 | business_license | Public Place of Amusement | SDJ Hospitality LLC | Charges a Fee for Entertainment or |
Quick start
Input
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
days | Days back from today (contract approval date / license issue date). |
feeds | Which feeds to include. |
keyword | Case-insensitive match on contract description or license type/business activity, e.g. ASPHALT, Retail Food. |
minAwardAmount | Only contracts with award_amount at or above this. |
newAwardsOnly | Skip contract modifications (revision > 0). |
newLicensesOnly | Only new / change-of-location / expansion licenses (best for new-business leads). |
dateFrom | YYYY-MM-DD; overrides Days back. |
dateTo | YYYY-MM-DD; defaults to today. |
maxItems | Maximum records per feed and in total. |
Fields
recordId, recordType (contract_award / business_license), date (contract approval or license issue date), title, businessName, nameWithheld, category, department, amount (USD award amount; revisions show the modification amount as published), status, contractNumber, revision, procurementType, startDate, endDate, licenseNumber, applicationType, expirationDate, address, city, state, zip, ward, communityArea, latitude, longitude, documentUrl, sourceUrl, source.
Privacy
Only business names are output. When a vendor or licensee name has no business marker (LLC, INC, CO, a business word) it could be a sole proprietor's personal name, so businessName is null, nameWithheld is true, and the street address is dropped. The record, amount and location fields stay.
Sources
- Contracts: https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/rsxa-ify5
- Business Licenses: https://data.cityofchicago.org/d/r5kz-chrr
Requests are rate-limited to follow the portal's robots.txt crawl delay. A copy of the notice below is saved to the run's key-value store as DISCLAIMER.
Disclaimer
This site provides applications using data that has been modified for use from its original source, www.cityofchicago.org, the official website of the City of Chicago. The City of Chicago makes no claims as to the content, accuracy, timeliness, or completeness of any of the data provided at this site. The data provided at this site is subject to change at any time. It is understood that the data provided at this site is being used at one's own risk.
This is an independent tool by Ledger and is not affiliated with or endorsed by the City of Chicago.
