New Business Leads: Freshly Licensed Chicago Businesses

Every business that just got its Chicago license, including restaurants, salons, spas, home-care agencies, daycares, garages and retailers. Reach them in their first weeks for about 2¢ each.

The Actor pulls from the City of Chicago's official business license records. It returns new licenses only (about 580 a month) and filters out renewals, pop-ups, peddlers and special events. Each lead includes the DBA name, legal entity, street address, ZIP, ward, neighborhood, license type, a plain-English business activity and the issue date.

👉 Try it free: new Apify accounts get $5 of free credit every month.

Real sample leads (pulled October 2026)

Business	Legal name	Activity	Issued
Riot Hair Studio	LYLAS LLC	Hair services	2026-10-07
BioLife Organic Spa	BioLife Organic Spa Inc.	Skincare services	2026-10-07
ABCOR Home Health	Northwest Home Care, Inc	Home health care	2026-10-07
United Technique Recording	Nimeh Corp	Multi-media services	2026-10-07
Secure Parking	Secure Parking USA, LLC	Public parking garage	2026-10-07

ROI: 1,000 new Chicago businesses cost $20. One POS, payroll, insurance, or marketing client covers that many times over.

Who uses it

POS & payments · commercial insurance · accountants & payroll · local marketing/SEO/web agencies · suppliers (beauty, food service, cleaning, pest control) · B2B SaaS for salons, restaurants and clinics.

Filters

Business activity keywords (Restaurant, Hair, Massage, Fitness, Tobacco) · license types (Retail Food Establishment, Tavern, Children's Services Facility License) · neighborhoods (Logan Square, West Town) · wards · ZIPs · issue-date range.

Set it up as a daily lead feed

Keep Only new since last run on, choose Schedule → Daily, and send leads to Google Sheets, HubSpot, Slack, Zapier or Make.

Input

{ "activityKeywords": ["Restaurant"], "neighborhoods": ["Logan Square", "West Town"], "dateFrom": "30 days", "onlyNew": true }

Output fields

licenseId, licenseNumber, businessName, legalName, address, city, state, zip, ward, neighborhood, licenseType, businessActivity, applicationCreated, dateIssued, licenseStart, expires, accountNumber, latitude, longitude, source

Pricing

$0.02 per lead ($20 per 1,000). No subscription.

FAQ

Source? The City of Chicago "Business Licenses" dataset on data.cityofchicago.org, published by the city for reuse and updated daily. Why not renewals? Renewals are businesses that already exist. This feed is only for businesses that are brand new. Other cities? Request yours in the Issues tab.

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Last updated: October 11, 2026 · Built by LeadSignal: public-record lead feeds for B2B sales. Not affiliated with the City of Chicago.