Lake County IL Lien Filings: Debtors, UCC & Tax Liens

Search recorded lien, tax-lien, judgment, municipal-lien and UCC filings in Lake County, Illinois: Waukegan, North Chicago, Zion, Gurnee, Mundelein, Libertyville, Round Lake, Highland Park, Lake Zurich and the rest of the county, by debtor, lender, claimant or exact document number. Get the parties, lien family, filing type, release flag, recording date, amount, document number and legal description as flat rows.

Lake County's Recorder publishes an online index of recorded land records and UCC filings. This actor turns that public index into structured rows you can load into a CRM, a spreadsheet, a skip-trace, a title workflow or a credit-monitoring job.

Here is one real record from this actor. Long text and long lists are shortened here; a live run returns them in full. source_page, source_url are left out of this example and included in your dataset.

{
  "record_id": "RP-8203636",
  "document_number": "8203636",
  "instrument_number": "8203636",
  "doc_type": "RELEASE-MECH LIEN",
  "doc_type_code": "RLM",
  "doc_group": "RP",
  "department": "RP",
  "department_label": "Land Records",
  "filing_type": "mechanics_lien_release",
  "filing_type_label": "Release of mechanics lien",
  "lien_category": "mechanics",
  "lien_category_label": "Mechanics lien",
  "is_ucc": false,
  "is_release": true,
  "is_secured": false,
  "recorded_date": "2026-10-30",
  "recorded_time": "4:57 PM",
  "instrument_date": null,
  "debtor_name": "TERZIAN STEVE",
  "debtor_names": "TERZIAN STEVE",
  "debtor_count": 1,
  "secured_party_name": "CAMPBELL HOME SERS LLC",
  "secured_party_names": "CAMPBELL HOME SERS LLC; AIRESERV PALATINE DBA",
  "secured_party_count": 2,
  "grantor_name": "CAMPBELL HOME SERS LLC",
  "grantor_names": "CAMPBELL HOME SERS LLC; AIRESERV PALATINE DBA",
  "grantee_name": "TERZIAN STEVE",
  "grantee_names": "TERZIAN STEVE",
  "party_direction": "grantee_debtor",
  "property_address": null,
  "parcel_numbers": null,
  "legal_description": null,
  "municipality": null,
  "subdivision": null,
  "lot": null,
  "block": null,
  "township": null,
  "amount_usd": null,
  "book": null,
  "volume": null,
  "page": null,
  "book_volume_page": null,
  "page_count": 2,
  "remarks": null,
  "marginal_references": "8066201",
  "parties_truncated": false,
  "source_doc_id": "332188126",
  "county": "Lake",
  "state": "IL",
  "source": "Lake County Recorder of Deeds (Illinois) public recorded-document index",
  "search_role": "new_filings",
  "search_term": null,
  "search_terms": "departments=RP,UCC; types=lien,federal_tax_lien,mobile_home_tax_lien,municipal_lien,state_lottery_lien,unemployment_tax_lien,tax_deferral_lien,mechanics_lien,chattel_lien,judgment, ...",
  "observed_at": "2026-10-31T17:12:54.867Z"
}

Input | Output | Pricing

Table of contents

• What you get
• Input and filters
• Use cases
• Coverage and freshness
• Pricing
• Comparison with other Apify actors
• Related LienIntel actors
• FAQ
• Run it through the Apify API

What you get

• Parties: debtor, taxpayer, property owner or defendant, plus the secured party, lender, taxing authority, judgment creditor or lien claimant. Both normalized roles and the raw grantor/grantee names are included.
• Lien family: tax, UCC / secured interest, judgment, mechanics, municipal or other statutory lien.
• Filing type: federal tax lien, mobile-home tax lien, state tax lien release, mechanic's lien release, municipal lien, chattel lien, judgment, foreclosure judgment, UCC financing statement, UCC continuation, UCC assignment, UCC amendment, UCC termination and their releases.
• Release flag: is_release is true for releases, terminations, discharges and partial releases, so you can separate new distress from payoffs.
• Money: amount_usd from the county consideration field, or from a dollar amount in the legal description when consideration is absent.
• Recording detail: recorded date and time, instrument date, document number, instrument number, book/volume/page, page count and county document group.
• Property and legal detail: subdivision, condominium, lot, block, township/section, legal description and any property address or parcel identifier the county publishes.
• Traceability: department, county, state, source page, search role, search term, run filters and observation timestamp.

Each record can carry these 57 fields. A field the source does not publish for a record comes back as null.

Field	Type	Description
record_id	string	Stable record key: department plus county document number
document_number	string	Recorded document number
instrument_number	string	Instrument number as published by the county
doc_type	string	County document type, for example LIEN-FEDERAL TAX or UCC FINANCIAL STMT
doc_type_code	string	County document type code, for example LFT, LNM, JUD, RFT or UFS
doc_group	string	County document group, for example RP or UCC
department	string	County search department: RP (Land Records) or UCC (UCC Filing)
department_label	string	Human-readable department label
filing_type	string	Normalized filing type, for example federal_tax_lien, mechanics_lien_release, judgment or ucc_initial
filing_type_label	string	Human-readable filing type label
lien_category	string	Normalized lien family: tax, ucc, judgment, mechanics, municipal or other
lien_category_label	string	Human-readable lien family label
is_ucc	boolean	True when the record comes from the UCC Filing department
is_release	boolean	True for releases, terminations, discharges and partial releases
is_secured	boolean	County is-secured flag as published; null when the county does not publish it
recorded_date	string	Recording date in YYYY-MM-DD format
recorded_time	string	Recording time as published, when present
instrument_date	string	Instrument or filing date in YYYY-MM-DD format, when published
debtor_name	string	Primary debtor, taxpayer, property owner or defendant name
debtor_names	string	All debtor-side names, joined with semicolons
debtor_count	integer	Number of debtor-side names
secured_party_name	string	Primary secured party, lender, taxing authority, judgment creditor or claimant name
secured_party_names	string	All secured-party-side names, joined with semicolons
secured_party_count	integer	Number of secured-party-side names
grantor_name	string	Primary grantor exactly as the county indexed it
grantor_names	string	All grantors, joined with semicolons; empty for UCC department records
grantee_name	string	Primary grantee exactly as the county indexed it
grantee_names	string	All grantees, joined with semicolons; empty for UCC department records
party_direction	string	How the county indexes the parties: grantee_debtor for Land Records liens or debtor_secured_party for UCC filings
property_address	string	Property address published on the filing; null when the county publishes only a legal description
parcel_numbers	string	Parcel or property identifiers, joined with semicolons; null when not published
legal_description	string	Legal description, joined with a pipe
municipality	string	Municipality or city from the property or legal record, when published
subdivision	string	Subdivision or condominium name
lot	string	Lot number or range
block	string	Block number
township	string	Township or section references, when published
amount_usd	string	Amount usd
book	string	Book value from the county book/volume/page reference
volume	string	Volume value from the county book/volume/page reference
page	string	Page value from the county book/volume/page reference
book_volume_page	string	Raw book/volume/page string
page_count	integer	Number of pages in the recorded document
remarks	string	County remarks, case numbers or notes, joined with a pipe
marginal_references	string	Marginal reference document numbers, joined with semicolons
parties_truncated	boolean	True when the county truncates a long party list
source_doc_id	string	County internal document identifier, useful for source reconciliation
county	string	County; always Lake
state	string	US state; always IL
source	string	Public source name
source_page	string	Public search page
source_url	string	Public source URL
search_role	string	How the record matched: party, document_number or new_filings
search_term	string	Party name or document number that matched this record
search_terms	string	Filters used for the run
observed_at	string	Timestamp when the record was observed
error	string	Error message when no records were returned or the run failed; error records are not charged

Input and filters

All inputs are optional.

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
partyNames	array	no	(none)	Names to search, up to 20. Partial names are supported, for example SMITH, GOODLEAP or INTERNAL REVENUE. Each name is searched separately and results are deduplicated.
partyRole	string	no	"any"	Match the name as the debtor side, the secured-party side, or either side. The actor knows which county field holds each role in each department. Values: any, debtor, secured_party.
documentNumbers	array	no	(none)	Optional recorded document numbers, up to 20. Use this to verify a known filing, for example 8203069.
lienTypes	array	no	(none)	Lien families to include. Leave empty for all. Allowed values: tax, ucc, judgment, mechanics, municipal, other.
includeReleases	boolean	no	true	Include releases, terminations, discharges and partial releases. Turn off to return only new lien, judgment and UCC filings.
releasesOnly	boolean	no	false	Return only releases, terminations, discharges and partial releases. Overrides the include-releases setting.
dateFrom	string	no	(none)	Earliest recorded date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Leave empty for the last 30 days when no search term is given, or the last 10 years when searching by name or document number.
dateTo	string	no	(none)	Latest recorded date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Leave empty for today.
maxFilings	integer	no	25	Maximum number of unique recorded lien or UCC filings to return and charge. Free Apify users receive up to 10 results per run.

A working example to paste into the Input tab:

{
  "maxFilings": 5,
  "dateFrom": "2026-10-01",
  "dateTo": "2026-10-31",
  "partyRole": "any",
  "includeReleases": true,
  "releasesOnly": false
}

Use cases

• Search Chicago's north suburbs for mechanics liens and releases across land records and UCC departments from 1980 on.
• MCA, equipment-finance and factoring teams: find businesses with a fresh UCC financing statement and identify the incumbent lender from the secured party.
• Commercial lenders and credit teams: monitor new tax liens, judgments and UCC filings against a borrower or prospect list.
• Tax-lien investors and property attorneys: find federal, state, mobile-home and municipal tax liens and their releases.
• Construction and supplier credit: find mechanic's liens and releases by owner, contractor or project.

Coverage and freshness

Data comes from the Lake County Recorder's public Land Records and UCC Filing departments for recorded dates from 1980 to today. The source is live; the latest recording observed was 2026-10-30 and the index certified date was 2026-10-28.

In the 2025-10-01 through 2026-10-31 window the selected lien and UCC families returned 4,995 recordings:

• Land Records: 3,621 statutory-lien recordings, including 383 federal tax liens, 609 mobile-home tax liens, 464 city/village/county liens, 255 mechanic's liens, 698 judgments, 14 foreclosure judgments, 194 general liens, 49 tax-deferral liens, 10 chattel liens, 2 lottery/unemployment liens and 943 releases (federal, state, mobile-home, mechanic, judgment, deferral and general lien releases).
• UCC Filing: 1,374 recordings, including 788 financing statements, 165 continuations, 29 assignments, 18 amendments and 374 terminations.

Lake County publishes a legal description for many instruments, not a situs address. When the county does not publish an address or parcel, those fields are null rather than invented. Amounts are published only on some instruments; amount_usd is populated only when a value is present.

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event pricing. These are the current Apify prices, read on 2026-11-06.

Event	Price	When it is charged
result	$0.015	Each record delivered to your dataset
apify-actor-start	$0.003	When a run starts, once per GB of run memory with a minimum of one

At the default 512 MB, a run that delivers 100 records costs $1.503.

• Apify asks for a maximum spend of at least $0.018 per run on this actor.
• Accounts on the free Apify plan receive up to 10 results per run.
• If nothing matches or the source fails, you get one row with an error field and no result charge. The start event still applies to the run.
• Set a maximum cost per run and the actor stops delivering results when it reaches that limit.

Comparison with other Apify actors

No dedicated actor for this source on the Apify Store as of November 2026. We searched the public Store on 2026-11-06 with queries including "Lake County Illinois lien", "Lake County recorder" and "Lake County ucc", and we reviewed the listings for this source and data type. Broader actors exist: shelvick/property-deed-records searches deed and lien records from county recorder indexes. Their listings do not name this source, so we could not confirm that they cover it. Store listings change, so run the same search before you rely on this.

Related LienIntel actors

Other public LienIntel actors for the same buyer:

• Alaska Recorder UCC & Lien Filings: Debtors & Lenders: county recorded liens and UCC filings in Alaska
• Allegan County MI UCC & Lien Records Search: county recorded liens and UCC filings in Allegan County, Michigan
• Allegheny County PA UCC Filings: Debtors & Secured Parties: county recorded liens and UCC filings in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
• Arapahoe County CO Lien Filings: UCC, Tax & Mechanics: county recorded liens and UCC filings in Arapahoe County, Colorado

FAQ

Is this a consumer credit report?

No. It is public-record research for business, lending, title and due-diligence workflows.

Why is the debtor sometimes on the grantee side?

Lake County indexes every statutory-lien family in Land Records with the lienholder, agency or claimant as grantor and the debtor or owner as grantee. The UCC Filing department instead publishes explicit debtor and secured-party fields. The actor maps each department to the correct direction and also returns the raw grantor and grantee lists.

How fresh is the data?

The index is live. A run sees instruments as soon as the Recorder indexes them, subject to normal county processing.

Can I get only new filings, not releases?

Yes. Set includeReleases to false, or use releasesOnly to invert it.

Does it return the document image?

No. You get the indexed data for each recording, along with the document number you need to order a copy from the recording office.

Run it through the Apify API

Replace <TOKEN> with your Apify API token.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/lienintel~lake-county-il-lien-filings/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=<TOKEN>" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"maxFilings": 5, "dateFrom": "2026-10-01", "dateTo": "2026-10-31", "partyRole": "any", "includeReleases": true, "releasesOnly": false}'

With the Apify CLI:

$apify call lienintel/lake-county-il-lien-filings --input '{"maxFilings": 5, "dateFrom": "2026-10-01", "dateTo": "2026-10-31", "partyRole": "any", "includeReleases": true, "releasesOnly": false}'

Every run writes to a dataset that you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel from the Storage tab or through the Apify API.

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LienIntel is an independent data provider and is not affiliated with any government office named on this page. Records are public and are provided for research and workflow automation. This is not a certified search and not a consumer report under the FCRA.